Time Bomb by R.M. Olson

Author:R.M. Olson [Olson, R.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-15T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Impact minus 8 hours, Jez

Jez hummed to herself as she made her way down the corridor.

Her ship was still dead. Lena was coming to kill them all, and it was at least partly her fault.

But she couldn’t seem to help it.

She almost had to glance at her feet on the ground to make sure the grav-control was still working.

There was no reason whatsoever for her to feel like she was floating. Absolutely none at all, and there was really, really no reason for the completely stupid grin on her face.

Still …

She could still feel his arm around her waist, the warmth of him against her back.

The moment when she’d turned in his arms, and their faces were almost touching, and his grip on her had tightened, just a little, and he’d leaned in towards her, his dark, thoughtful eyes intense and not, in that moment, thoughtful at all.

And it was stupid that the memory made her breath catch and her heart pound.

He was Lev. He was a soft-boy, and a scholar, and not even a little bit her type, and she should know, because she’d been with plenty of people who were her type. Whatever that was.

Never lasted for more than a few months, because somehow a few months seemed to be the outside limit on how long she could handle things being the same without going completely crazy, but it had always been fun while it did last. She was certainly no innocent, and Lev was certainly not the first person whose body warmth she’d enjoyed.

But this … was different, somehow. Because it wasn’t just that. It wasn’t just the fact that her heart couldn’t seem to stop pounding when she was around him, and it wasn’t just the heady breathlessness of being too close to him. There was something about Lev that was—comfortable, somehow. Like the feel of ship’s controls under her fingers and open space around her. Something that felt like home, even though she’d never really had a home for as long as she could remember.

And that was the part she was afraid of. Because if she was being honest, she was completely terrified.

No. Lev was definitely a bad idea, and she was definitely going to tell him that.

Soon.

Probably.

She was humming again, and she could still feel the warmth of him against her shoulders, the way her body had somehow fit with his, like ship’s parts slipping into place.

Yep. This was definitely a very, very bad idea.

She shook her head to clear it, and glanced around. She’d reached the hatch that led down to the storage room, and she pulled it open gingerly, wincing at the pressure on her ribs.

The thought of going down there, of seeing the scorched bones of her perfect, beautiful ship, like some burned corpse, made her feel almost sick to her stomach.

But—she was pretty sure, when she’d been down there last time, that she’d seen something. It had been nagging at her ever since, even in the unnervingly-pleasant circle of Lev’s arms and his chest.

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