Page 41 of Cops in Space
I gave Kaelen a mental smooch.“Be careful.”
“I am always careful.”His mouth moved over mine, demanding, sensual and full of carnal need.
Dad barked,“Knock it off! Now!”
Kaelen vanished from my mind.
A shudder shook me. Every time Kaelen touched me, he turned me into a deranged nymphomaniac.
Once again Jaxor rubbed his face against my leg.
The joys of motherhood.“Let’s get dried off.”I grabbed my hair dryer and turned it on.
With a squeak of alarm, Gita shot straight to the ceiling.
Jaxor vanished under the bed.
“Damn!” I quickly turned the hairdryer off.“I’m so sorry, guys, I use this to dry my hair. It won’t hurt you.”
“Scary noise. No like,”Gita cried.
Jaxor peeked up at me.“Me no like.”
“Sorry! So sorry. I never meant to frighten you.”I ran a hand through my wet hair. Unbelievable! The tornado of death didn’t scare Jaxor, but the dryer did?“Let me show you how it works.”I turned it on and used a brush to dry my hair.
Gita dangled from the ceiling on a single strand of silk.“No hurt?”
“No.”I hurriedly put my hair into a ponytail and let the warm air blow on her.“See? Feels good.”
“Do more.”I fluffed her hair with the brush and added a little pink bow on the top of her head.“All pretty now.”
Jaxor crawled out from under the bed.“Me too.”
I blew air over him.“There you go.”
“Where my pretty?”
Dang. Xyler would have a meltdown if I put bows on him. I chewed on my lower lip. Hmmm. Xyler wouldn’t want anything Coletti marking Jaxor either, but I did have some NASA Velcro patches which should stick to his scales. I pressed one against his chest and to my relief it stuck.“There ya go, all pretty.”
“You decent Lexi?”Uncle Saul called.
I opened the door and peered into the hallway.“Yep. Please tell me you added Zan to the compost heap.”
Uncle Saul grinned at me.“No, I had a long talk with him and put him to work grilling steaks.”
“He’ll probably try to poison us.”
Gita landed on his shoulder.“Me pretty.”
“Very pretty,”Uncle Saul agreed.
Jaxor patted his patch.“Me special.”
“You are.”Uncle Saul eyed my jumpsuit.“You were the one who kept breaking into the engineering lab at Johnson Space Center and stealing space suits.”
I shot across the hallway and placed my hand on the elevator’s sensor pad.“I plead the fifth. Did you find out what Zan’s problem is?”
“I couldn’t sense any deceit in him, but Captain Zan truly believes women are not capable of fighting.”The elevator door opened with a grinding clank.
