Your Planet or Mine? by Susan Grant

Author:Susan Grant [Grant, Susan]
Format: epub
Tags: Science fiction
ISBN: 9780373771066
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2009-04-26T00:06:03+00:00

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Chapter Fifteen

After the fire trucks left, police festooned the charred remains of Evie's car with a ring of yellow crime-scene ribbon. The few larger pieces of the Honda that had survived were loaded in a truck and hauled away. Everything else was swept into boxes, including the powdery remains of Cavin's armor and boots.

Staring out the window, Jana pressed a fist to her stomach to stifle a wave of fear. "They're going to run tests on everything they find. They'll see the bits of armor. Your gear isn't made of stuff we have on Earth. The men in black will come looking for my sister. She won't be very happy about that, I can tell you." Unless, of course, the agents were male and cute. And available. Evie was, after all, single and looking. Still, it was a situation Jana wanted to avoid at all costs.

Cavin guided her backward to lean against his chest, slinging a protective arm around her. "There is no danger to your sister. The armor has already broken down into benign, commonly found compounds. It's a security precaution to keep our technology from falling into Drakken claws."

"They have claws?" A sinister image filled her mind, something straight out of an old, dubbed Godzilla movie.

He shook his head. "Sorry. It was a figure of speech provided by my translator. Their DNA is no different from your people, or mine." Darkly, he added, "But, somewhere along the way, they seem to have lost their humanity."

"Like the REEF?"

"Yes."

Jana shuddered as she peered down from the room window to the scene below. Only one patrol car was left. A couple of cops were busy filling out paperwork for the hotel guests whose cars had been damaged in the explosion. Explosive passion! Senator steals sister's car for secret rendezvous with alien lover.

Jana stopped breathing for a moment. Her imagined headlines were starting to sound awfully close to ones that might actually make it to print. 'No making headlines for anything but the bills you pass." In her mind, she saw Grandpa wagging a finger at her.

"Yenflarg." Jana ground her fingertips into her temples. "What else can possibly go wrong?"

"I've been asking myself the same question since I arrived here," Cavin replied dryly.

"It feels wrong not to confess it was our car. Dishonest."

"No, Jana. Safe. We can't take the chance of going outside and revealing our connection to the vehicle."

"They'll figure out the connection. I saw at least one license plate that was recognizable."

"They'll call your sister, not you. And as we discussed, she will pretend it was stolen from her dwelling."

More lies, Jana thought gloomily. Why suffer alone when she could drag the rest of the Jasper family down into the deep, dank pit of notoriety with her? And she wasn't looking forward to the call she'd have to give her sister, either. "Wait until Evie finds out an assassin from outer space wrecked Godiva."

"Godiva?"

"The Honda was her college car. She named it Godiva. In those days it was chocolate brown.

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