Free Soul-Bonded to the Alien by Serena Simpson Page B

sight.”
    “I’m glad now you can go back and find another mate, somebody who loves you.” Her voice faded away as the poison began to enter her system causing her leg to go numb.
    “Hush, Paige. I’m going to enter your body.”
    “You can’t do that.”
    “Watch me, Sunshine.”
     
     
    *~*~*~*
     
     
    Cal laid down next to her knowing that to leave his body unprotected even here was against the rules. He didn’t care and would break as many rules as necessary to save Paige’s life. Slipping out of himself, he entered into her body.
    A smaller part of his essence moved inside of her. He set off for her leg bypassing the heart and the venom snake that would gladly love for him to get to close to it. Her body was a mass of reds and blacks showing her response to the bite she suffered. He traveled through her blood stream until he finally reached her injured leg. The poison from the bird was dark and oily as it began to spread.
    ;“Paige, can you hear me?”
    “I hear you. Where are you?” Her voice sounded drowsy to his ears.
    “Stay with me, Paige. Talk to me about anything.” He frowned feeling concern pulse through his veins, Paige’s body in here was pure essence, if she died there was no coming back. The weakness of her reply had him on edge.
    Turning his attention back to the poison, he generated a fine silk that flowed from his body fighting to get ahead of the poison that was trying to flow down her leg. Carefully he maneuvered the web through the affected areas taking care not to come into contact with any contaminated tissue. He didn’t want to chance spreading the contamination in her body by coming into contact with it.
    Getting the web in front of the spreading poison, he built a barrier to keep it from going any further. The silk web acted like a sieve allowing the blood to easily pass through but keeping the poison at bay.
    Looking at the wound, he shook his head. Poison was still seeping inside. If it wasn’t stopped she wouldn’t make it. It must be replicating, he needed to cauterize the edges of the wound and destroy the poison around it before he could get rid of what was collecting. He was going to have to hurt her. A deep mournful howl came from his Matra at what he would need to do.
    Taking a deep breath, he generated a heat that would take care of the jagged flesh around the bite and hopefully stop the poison from replicating. A beam came from his hand going to the edge of the wound. It hovered not moving.
    “Sunshine, this is going to hurt. I need to cauterize the wound, sealing it off from any other attack.”
    “Paige, are you listening to me?” Desperation clawed at his chest as he waited for her answer.
    “I’m tired, Cal, I just want to sleep.”
    “You can’t sleep. Paige, I need you to fight and you can’t do if you’re asleep. I promise when I get you back home, you can sleep as long as you like. Are you listening to me, beautiful?”
    “You called me Beautiful.” There was a slight feeling of awe in her voice.
    “Because you are, Paige. The minute I saw you I was overwhelmed by your beauty, then I met you. Now I know you’re not just beautiful on the outside, but you’re also beautiful on the inside. Get ready this will hurt.”
    He aimed a bright light at her wound watching as the ends sealed and the poison dissipated into noxious fumes. He felt her pain; even though they weren’t yet soul bonded it reverberated through him. He took a deep breath and continued. He had to stop the poison or he would lose her.
    Cal listened as Paige’s breath came out in shallow pants with cries of pain accompanying it.
    “Did you close the wound?” her voice was low and shaky.
    “No, not yet. I need to push the poison out of your system, it would be too deadly to try to diffuse it enough so it could travel through and pass naturally.”
    “You make it sound so easy.”
    “Hmm, maybe my bedside manner is improving.”
    She gave a small chuckle.
    “Tell me something I