by Calista Skye
Fusion Excerpt
So, this was what a Te’Vanian looked like, I thought.
I swallowed as I took him in, rude, but I didn’t care. This was the most interesting thing to happen to me that day, all year really. Nearly twice the size, width ways, of an average man back on the Quincy. And he was tall too. Standing, I guessed, at nearly 7ft. I was minuscule in his presence and even Enner had to crane his neck to address the man.
“Work order?” the huge Te’Vanian said, omitting any greeting. One of his hands moved from behind his back, awaiting Enner to present the official document that declared we were in the right place and sanctioned to be there.
“Commander V’Aben, pleasure to see you again,” Enner said in a smarmy tone as he dug around in his top boiler suit pocket. He was laying it on a bit thick, I thought. He was never this nice to anyone else.
My eyes remained fixed upon the Te’Vanian in front of me. I noticed his other hand wavered over a cylindrical object that hung front a belt around his tapered waist. A weapon, perhaps?
I frowned, and took in my surroundings for the first time since stepping off the shuttle and onto the unknown station. What kind of ship is this? It was highly unusual for weapons to be openly displayed like this. And if I was being truthful, my heart began to hammer in my chest. I should’ve paid more attention to why we were here, I thought, scolding myself.
Enner successfully retrieved what he’d been searching for and the Commander thankfully moved his hand away from his belt. I breathed a slow gust of air from my nose. Enner held out his arm and with a quick wave from the I.D.D. (Identification device), he was processed, the Te’Vanian allowing him to pass by him.
I watched his every move, it was like I was in a trance; how could the bulky man before me be so graceful when he was so big? But he’d stepped aside with a fluidity that made me wonder if he could dance… Did Te’Vanians even know of dancing? Surely they did? I pondered what it would be like to be led around a full room in his arms.
“Arm,” the giant demanded, his dark teal eyes boring into mine.
“What? Oh, here,” I replied. I rolled up the long sleeve of my navy blue work overalls and elevated my arm so he could use the I.D.D to scan my recently implanted tracker for my details.
However my hand arced a little too fast and accidentally bumped into his, and for a second a sliver of his flesh and mine made contact. An unusual spark of pleasure ran screaming with delight to my center. I shuddered but as soon as I registered the tingling sensation I knew instinctively I’d made an error in judgment… that I’d done something wrong. Touching never ever felt that good.
A low growl emitted from the towering hulk as he captured my wrist in a vice lock. “You dare to touch me?” he hissed.
I furrowed my brow and attempted to twist my hand free of his gloved hand. Handsome or not, alien or not, no-one holds me captive, unless I want them to.
Instead of pulling away, I stepped closer the Te’Vanian, my head held high and looked deep into his luminescent blue eyes. “Let. Me. Go.” I tried to sound as threatening and as confident as I could, even though I knew the only way I was going to get out of his clutches was if he indeed let me go.
His eyebrows rose, the first sign of real emotion from the deadpan alien, it caused his ingrained markings that coated his forehead to ripple.
He released my wrist, the corners of his mouth twitched upward into what could’ve been considered a smirk. God, he was cute… and I found myself longing for that tiny gap of skin between his gloves and uniform to come once again into contact with mine.
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