“Zelron, we have neutralized the threat! Get your female on board the ship, now! We have to hurry if we are to save her!” The station commander’s voice sounded in his ear. The other two herded him towards the fire skimmer.
“Our healers are more advanced with humans than they are with their own.”
Zelron took a seat and the warrior pulled a healing kit from the side of the ship while the other two strapped in and closed the door. The rumble of the engines firing vibrated under his feet as the craft lifted off the roof.
One of the young warriors knelt before him, holding the healer’s kit in his hand. Zelron growled, yanking the blood suppressant from the other Kelon’s hand. “No one touches her but me!”
“Your corami. I understand, but we are all here to help, Zelron. Your hands are covered in blood. You are injured and losing much of your own blood. Your mind is not clear, but fogged with the need to do battle and protect.”
Zelron was torn between wanting to tear everything apart, and at the same time not wanting to let his corami from his arms. She was his! No one could touch her.
The young warrior held up an injector. “This is for your shoulder.”
Zelron did not flinch, allowing the young warrior to press it to his neck. He jumped back as the drug hit his system.
“No! I will kill…” It was too late. His grip tightened on Providence before he slumped forward, blacking out.
Chapter 14
Heavy. Providence never realised death would feel heavy. Lights swam before her closed eyes. She wanted to open them to see where she was, to see if she was in heaven, hell, or some place in between.
“You can do it, Providence. Open your eyes for me.”
Whose voice is that? It was deep and male for sure. Maybe it was the devil’s voice. All her sins finally caught up with her, like the time she snuck out of the house at night and gone with Danny Sims on a dare to egg Mrs Rooney’s house with rotten chicken eggs.
Or the time when she got mixed up with Ray the Ratchet from high school, who taught her to pick locks. They broke into the Thompson’s store. Although she didn’t take anything, she never told anyone Ray stole a whole rack of cigarettes and chewing gum.
“There are many here who want to meet you, lovely lady.”
Lovely lady? The devil wouldn’t call her a lovely lady, unless he was high on crack. Prov fought harder, forcing her eyes open, only to find her vision blurry. She blinked rapidly, clearing her eyesight.
The man leaning over her appeared youthful, handsome with a clean-cut jawline, but the high, plated ridge on his forehead and midnight black eyes marked him a…
“Kelon?” Her voice croaked like a frog. She tried clearing her throat.
A wide smile lit his features.
“Hello, Providence. Nice to finally have you awake. I am Solron, head healer at Kelon Prime Healing Centre, or what you would call a medical centre. You had us worried for quite some time.”
Confusion made her frown. Her memory was hazy. She wasn’t dead, but why would she think she was dead? Where was Zelron?
Oh, god, Zelron! Images of his bloodied shoulder and the yelling on top of the roof of the television station came to her. She tried to sit up.
“Zelron, he…he was hurt…Zelron!”
“Providence, calm yourself! Your heart rate just shot up. Let me assure you Zelron is fine. In fact, he has been a royal pain, as my wife is fond of saying.”
“Really?”
“Oh, yes, really. We have sent the grump to wash and eat. We had to make him do it, or he would never have left your side. Sara convinced him he needed to exercise, too, in order to stay strong enough to look after you once you awakened.”
Prov’s chest heaved with a sigh of relief.
“It is just plain logic.” A soft, woman’s voice answered from the other side of the room.
Solron helped to sit Prov up on the soft bed. A pretty woman with white blonde hair waddled into view. Her belly distended, she was clearly in advanced pregnancy.
“Hi, I thought you might want to see a human face when you woke up, and someone to talk to. I’m Sara and Solron is my husband—and the best doctor in the entire universe.” Solron moved to pull up a sofa-like chair and Sara eased herself down into it.
“Only because I have the best corami in the entire universe.” He kissed Sara’s forehead. “Now remember, easy, my love.” His hand caressed her rounded stomach before moving away. “Sara can answer your questions. I will go fetch Zelron. He will want to know you’re awake, or we will never hear the end of it.”
Prov tried to shift, but found her limbs sluggish. “Don’t worry; you’ve been laying here for awhile. It’ll take time for everything to start working again. So, where do you want to start?”