Free Chocolate Rewards: The Sweetness of Two Worlds Colliding Together by Rachel Burns

have slept, but he was afraid to.
What if she woke up and spoke before passing on?
    He cursed
himself for leaving her alone. What master left a newly acquired
slave unattended? He should have figured that she would try to run
off. Of course she didn't know anything about this planet. He didn't
even have a clue.
    He would
regret that for the rest of his life.

    When
Rokai couldn't hold his head up or keep his eyes open he undressed
and laid down in bed next to her. He moved her so she was lying on
top of him. Her head was on his chest. This position just felt right.

    Amber
heard a gentle pounding in her ear. It seemed so familiar and
comforting. She snuggled into it, rubbing her cheek and ear over the
sound. She moved her arm around the thing that was making the
wonderful noise, wanting to hold it in place.
    Amber
noticed that her foot still hurt, but she was too tired to worry
about that.
    Rokai's
eyes flashed open when he felt movement. Amber's head was snuggling
into his chest. Then her arm wrapped around him holding him tightly.
He gently moved his hand so it was covering her head, wanting to
protect her. He was thrilled that she was moving. It must mean that
she would live.
    He smiled
briefly before exhaustion took him again.

    Rokai
woke when an Emko poked him. His eyes flew open to see what was the
matter.
    “ The
doctor is here,” Emil told him.
    Rokai
rubbed over his eyes quickly before he sat up. He gently laid Amber
by his side as he got up to greet the doctor.
    He
wrapped his clothes around himself as he explained that she had moved
in the night. It sounded like he was bragging about her. The thought
of her snuggling into him was a moment that was precious to him. One
he hoped that he would never forget.
    The
doctor looked her over. “Are you positive that she woke?”
    “ Yes.
She rubbed her head against me and wrap an arm around me.”
    The head
Emko, Emil, moved, so he was standing next to his master. He wanted
to show the doctor that his master wasn't a liar.
    “ Perhaps
you dreamt that she moved. My computer is showing that she isn't
conscious.” He moved the blankets away from her body and looked at
her foot. “I arrived too late. I may have to remove this.” He
looked up at Rokai to see how he would react.
    Rokai
didn't really care about her foot. He just wanted her to live, but
Emil had the presence of mind to say something. “I realize that our
medicine is seen as being old fashioned, but her body will fight off
the poison and she will heal with time.”
    Emil
turned to his master. “Doctors nowadays don't know anything about
the art of healing. They can only hold a laser. Trust in our ways. I
will find a woman and assign her to your slave she will care for
her.” Emil looked down at the woman in the bed and added, “For
the rest of her long life.”
    “ I am
going to trust my worker. He came highly recommended, from King
Aideyoung, personally.”
    The
doctor was offended by what the tiny man had said. “You are lucky
enough to have a woman. It is your duty to see to it that she
recovers. If you don't want her another man will, even without one of
her feet.”
    “ I want
to keep her, but I have to agree with my man. And she did wake up in
the night. She was looking for closeness to me.” Even now Rokai
felt like need to pull her close and holding her tightly. It was a
need that he would see to the second that they were alone.
    “ I'll
be staying on my ship until she dies, but I will report this. Denying
a slave medical attention is a cruelty that won't be tolerated.”
The doctor packed up his laser and left.
    Rokai's
stomach was all in knots as he worried about losing Amber. He just
felt strongly that no Emko would insult a doctor without cause. What
he said about the doctor just being able to hold a laser was
something that his own parents had complained about. The best doctors
worked for the King and normal ones had offices on the planets, but
those who showed the least amount of