Page 33 of Cops in Space
I felt Kaelen rummaging through my mind before he exclaimed,“You rescued a baby Tabor too?
“I did.”
“Unbelievable.”
The elevator door opened and I ran for the four-acre garden we had planted two years ago.
To my horror, Gita was dodging the rattlesnake’s strikes.
Xyler zipped by me, grabbed the rattlesnake and hurled it away.
“Onkel hurt. You fix?” Gita peered up at me.
“Yes, me fix.”Kneeling beside Uncle Ben, I clamped my hand over the bite and channeled every ounce of healing power I had into him.
My kids watched in fascination.
“Who him?”Jaxor asked.
Gita crawled up my leg.“Him Onkel.”
“Lexi, let us heal him. You haven’t fully recovered from that beating you took,”Dad said gently.
He was right. The dizziness was back and I had the headache from hell.“Okay.”
Kaelen picked up me and the kids.“You need some blood.”
“Blood! Ugh.”
Dad interjected,“You’ll heal faster and we need you in fighting shape, Lexi.”
Dammit. He was right.
“We like blood.”Nix and Jaxor climbed on Kaelen’s shoulders and opened their mouths like little birds.
Xyler grabbed them.“No. Only Momma Lexi. What you need is meat.”He walked off.
Flies began buzzing around me.
Gita’s little tongue quickly snapped them up.
“Thanks sweetie.”
A vulture circled overhead.
“What dat?”
“That is a vulture who eats dead things.”
Gita scrambled under my chin.“Me no dead.”
“No, Blipblat’s lab was full of rotting corpses, so we just smell like we’re dead.”
Kaelen sat me on a crate.“It is good I have become accustomed to the stench of death while fighting the Tai-Kok.”
“Love you too.”I sniffed my shirt. Holy hell, I smelled as bad as that mortuary the monsters had bombed last July.
Kaelen bit into his wrist and pushed it against my mouth.“Drink.”
