Maddison, Karly - Time Slip [The Xephon Alliance 1] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Karly Maddison Page A

to be coming to an end, and she prepared to leave along with Tinny. Captain Zeba sent him away to work on bringing her back. It seemed when she approached Tinny she could see what happened in the time line she had just left, but when she moved away she leaked forward into a future time line. Was this because she had been holding his hair when she zapped through time? Did the fact that she had held some of his cells in her hand when the white light flashed keep her bizarrely tethered to him?
    She realized she could do mischief while she was invisible and soundless. Kash went down to the kitchens and admired some desserts while kitchen staff worked oblivious around her cleaning dishes from the evening meal and preparing food for breakfast. But she couldn’t really touch anything let alone eat it, which meant if she didn’t get out of this dimension that was pulling her between her lost present and the future, she’d eventually starve or die of thirst. As she walked past some shiny metal cabinets, she noticed she cast no reflection. I’m like a vampire . Some people might think it fun to be invisible, but really, it felt dreadful.
    She walked down to the bridge, a place she was normally forbidden to go to. She looked around at the people working at consoles. Nobody knew she was there, so she sidled up to the window and gazed at the stars. They looked familiar but distorted.
    My God! Was that not Hashian’s Belt with its binary stars at the buckle? And below it Riek’s Archer? Did they not have access to Earth-made star maps? She wanted to scream at them, to jump up and down and point with excitement. What if they drifted away to the other side of Blueworld One, away from these familiar constellations while she was unable to warn them? Kash ran to the sextant and lined up the cross with her eye, memorizing the coordinates, for she could not write them down. This was the most exciting revelation in months, and she couldn’t share it! Frustrated, she left the bridge in search of Tinny.
    When she finally caught up with him, she followed him down to his rooms, wondering what he was going to do next. She watched as he threw his dusty, old notebook on the bed. Was he going to sleep now? Cad! He had work to do, important work. She screamed at him, but he didn’t hear her. Disgusted, she simmered with resentment as he shed his outer layer of clothing.
    Bored, she looked away until she heard the shower running. He had water here now? How curious. Used to be a pathetic, little mist come steam wash. Running water? Get serious! He must have rigged it himself with his engineering skills, she decided. Curious now she traipsed back to the shower cubicle to check it out.
    Ho! Tinny, you’re naked!
    She reeled back at the sight of him standing under the gushing water, his face turned up. Oh man! She had definitely underestimated this guy. He had a body to die for. Not so bulky like Lunox’s or Tipha’s would’ve been if she’d seen them naked. He had a lean, sculpted body like a world-class gymnast or a very fit ballet dancer. His limbs were long, and the muscles lay along them tightly like strong, corded dock ropes. Wide shoulders smoothed down to a flat plane of a chest, hairless and smooth with abdominal muscles arrowing to narrow hips… Oh wow! And he washed himself with a chocolate bar that he thought was a cake of soap. Hilarious . Could he possibly get any more delicious? Heavens! She couldn’t help looking at his…very nice cock! She wondered what it would look like erect. He wasn’t turned on by himself in the shower, so it lay dormant against his muscular thighs. What kind of workout does this guy do to look like this? She reached her hand out to touch his gorgeous cock. He didn’t have much hair down there, or anywhere else on his body, except his head, where it grew rich and thick and tangled.
    As she touched him, he leapt backward and let out a little cry of alarm. Holy cows! Had he felt that? She leaned up against