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“You already introduced yourself.”
“That’s right, I did. So now that we’ve been introduced, care to tell me where it is?”
“Where what is?”
“I don’t know. Some kind of special object. The details aren’t clear. I assumed you’d know what I meant. The bossman said Sage was very specific about you helping me.”
“Listen, crazy naked dude from the stars, I don’t know what you are, why you’re really here, or what you want from me, but I think I’ve had enough weirdness for one day. So I’m going back to my shelter and having a cup of coffee, which will be fifty percent or more whiskey, then to bed, where I will later wake up and decide I hallucinated on account I smacked my head.”
“Not a hallucination, that is assuming you’ve not imbibed any shrooms. Even then, this is happening, Doc. Now lead me to your camp, because a whiskey coffee sounds great. Although you can skip the coffee in mine.”
“Who says you’re invited?” she retorted.
“You’re a scientist. Don’t tell me you’re not curious about the naked man who appeared from the sky.”
“I would be if this were real.”
“I’ll show you real.” He stalked for her, and she got to notice just how tall he was. Fluid, too, his body moving limber and confident. His smile just enough to stutter her heart.
When he stopped in front of her, she had to crane to see him. Heat radiated from his nude flesh. “How are you so hot?” she muttered.
“Baby, I was born this way,” he murmured before dragging her upward and planting a kiss on her lips!
CHAPTER 3
Her lips were cold,yet still tasted sweet for the two seconds Scorpio kissed the doctor.
Until she stomped on his foot.
His bare foot.
With her boot.
As if that weren’t affront enough, her knee rose and hit him in the balls.
A warrior didn’t exist that wouldn’t fold in shock and pain.
As he breathed through the agony, she tartly stated, “Keep your hands and mouth to yourself. As a matter of fact, keep your entire person away from me and go back to whatever hole—or star—you crawled out of.”
With that, she stalked away which led to confusion. Women didn’t reject him. Ever. Unless…
“Apologies, I assumed given Sage sent me on this mission that you were into men. My mistake.”
The doctor whirled and gaped before huffing, “I’m straight, I just don’t like strange men mauling me.”
“Hardly mauled,” he argued.
“You kissed me without permission.”
“How else would I do it?” he asked with genuine puzzlement. “Doesn’t asking take away from the impromptu nature and passion of a kiss?”
“Is that the excuse male predators are using these days?”
“What?” Scorpio’s turn to gape.
“I am not in the mood to stand around in the cold discussing your lack of morals and behavior. Goodbye. And don’t follow,” she added as she continued marching away from him.
Dilemma. Should he crawl back to Babel Tower and admit to Aries he’d borked the mission in under five minutes, or should he ignore her demand and try to salvage the reason he’d come?