Free The Bond That Heals Us by Christine D'Abo Page B

managed to avoid looking directly at her while they got dressed.
    “I need to get back to my ship,” he said when she finally came out of the back room.
    Inwardly, he cursed when she winced before fixing a too bright smile on her face.
    “Hey, no worries. I need to get back to med bay anyway. I’m sure they’re going nuts not knowing where I’m at anyway.”
    “Sara—”
    “Look, I don’t want you going all possessive alien on me. We didn’t have any promises beyond enjoying ourselves. We had some of the best sex I can remember in forever. I had a great night’s sleep and now it’s time to go.”
    She tried to move past him toward the door, but Davin caught her arm. Beyond that he didn’t know what to do. How in Joural’s name had he let himself get so caught up with a woman? A woman he’d just met. He let his gaze travel over her body once more, memorizing every detail. When she didn’t pull her arm away, he reached up and tried to tug her shirt over the exposed part of her shoulder.
    “I left a mark.” He said the words with a mixture of possessiveness and regret.
    “You wouldn’t be the first.”
    When she pulled away this time, he let her go.
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Chapter Five
    Sara sat behind her desk and stared at the wall. She wasn’t even going to pretend to work—no point really. Everyone seemed to know about her wild night with Davin. The guys who had walked into the hall on them must have recognized her after all. Shit, it had been three days ago and Rachael still was teasing her about him. Thank god he’d avoided her since then.
    “Stupid idiot.”
    She had no idea if she was cursing him or herself. Despite her playful image, she didn’t sleep around. Sure, she liked to have fun and, admittedly, was a terrible flirt. But when it came to sex there’d been very few conquests. It wasn’t worth the inevitable heartache that came the next day.
    Pushing away from the desk, Sara stood, grabbed her lab coat and turned the collar up. The bruise on her neck was mostly healed now, but she didn’t want to bring any undo attention to it. Haylie’s freak-out session the day after she’d slept with Davin had been hard enough. It was only after she’d assured her it came as part of the best sex of her life that Haylie had backed down and promised not to arrest him.
    Having someone notice and say something at the weekly department meeting would be just painful. Slipping out of her office and past the few people in med bay, pausing only to adjust a sling of one of the miners, she made her way into the corridor.
    Where she ran straight into Davin.
    He was leaning against the wall opposite med bay, wearing a heavy scowl.
    “Your face will stick that way if you don’t stop,” she said and walked past him.
    His body heat was a comfort when he fell into step beside her, though she’d be damned if she let him know that.
    “Might be an improvement,” he muttered.
    She couldn’t help but chuckle. “How’s your ship, Captain? Repairs well underway, I assume.”
    “Progressing.”
    Sara let the silence carry on between them for half a corridor length before she stopped and turned on him.
    “So what can I do for you? Or did you just feel like stalking me? Because if that’s the case, I do believe Haylie or Taber would be happy to show you to the brig again.”
    “I’ve been asked by your charming administrator to accompany you to a meeting.”
    From the look on his face, he was less than happy about it.
    “Why the hell would he want you to come? It’s nothing but updates.”
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    Davin shrugged, his eyes skimming over her body, lingering at the spot where he’d bitten her.
    “I’ll have to show up to find out.”
    “So why come here?”
    Sara tried not to react to the nearness of his body, the erotic scent that rolled off him, teasing her when he stepped close.
    “I didn’t know where the meeting was.”
    “You could have asked someone.” She swallowed hard but kept her eyes locked on his.
    “I