Protected: Alien Mate Index Book 2: (Alien Warrior BBW Paranormal Science fiction Romance) (The Alien Mate Index) by Evangeline Anderson

absolutely huge. “Um…” Grav’s eyes followed mine and he saw where I was staring. “Sorry,” he muttered, shifting in his seat. “I, uh…can’t help it.”
    Oh God, this was just getting more and more awkward! I couldn’t be looking between his legs! I needed to get out of here!
    “Do…do you mind if I take a look?” I said.
    “What?” His eyes dipped down to his crotch again. “You want to—”
    “Oh, no! No-no-no!” I could feel my cheeks getting hotter and hotter with mortification. This situation was just getting worse and more embarrassing by the second! “At my face . I meant I want to go look at my face and see how you healed me,” I said, the words falling out of my mouth in a tumble.
    “Oh. Oh, sure—of course. There’s a viewer next to the com-link.” He jerked his head in the direction of the corridor we’d come from. “Help yourself.”
    “Thanks.” I got to my feet on shaky legs and stumbled ungracefully by him out into the hallway. I still felt a little weak and dizzy from the kiss we’d shared but I made myself take a deep breath and look for the viewer he’d talked about.
    I found it hanging on the wall, right outside a room which had to be the control area of the ship. It looked like a kind of cockpit with an array of controls and a windshield that showed the blackness of space.
    It made me feel sick and surreal to see it and realize that this strange adventure I was on was no dream, no matter how strange and dreamlike it felt.
    Trying to ignore my feelings, I turned to the viewer which was the same kind as the one I had seen in the bathroom earlier. Mounted on the wall beside it was a strange looking piece of equipment that looked like a smooth, black box with recessed lights winking inside it. Was that the com-link Grav had talked about? Well, whatever—I was more interested in the viewer.
    I flipped it on, using the buttons with more ease this time and saw a very different image from the last time I had looked at my reflection.
    My face was healed—not just healing but actually, completely healed.
    I gave a little gasp as my fingers explored the places my injuries had been. I’d been swollen and battered and bruised just a few minutes before and now…nothing. I looked like nothing had ever happened.
    In fact, I looked better than that—I looked good. My eyes were bright and starry and my skin seemed to be actually glowing a little bit. Was that even possible? There was a faint, pretty pink blush to my cheeks, my lips were full and red and pouty. Even my hair looked perfect—shiny and glossy and lustrous—like I was a model out of a shampoo commercial.
    “Wow,” I muttered to myself, still running my fingertips over my face. “ Amazing .” Apparently lust and guilt agreed with me, although I couldn’t think how. How had Grav managed to do all this just by licking my face?
    And more importantly, how had he managed to make me feel things I’d never expected to feel?
    As I looked at myself in the mirror, my mind whirled with questions.
    How had things happened so fast between us? What was it I felt when he touched me and why had I never been able to feel it before? Would I ever feel it again?
    It doesn’t matter—none of it does, I told myself sternly. Because you’re not going to act on this…this feeling or whatever it is. You’re going to go back down to Earth and take care of your personal business and forget this ever happened.
    I knew it was what I should do, even if part of me wished I didn’t have to. Even if part of me wished I could stay with Grav and explore this elusive, amazing sensation.
    I felt like I’d been colorblind all my life, listening to people talk about rainbows and suddenly someone had showed me one. Would I ever see another if I left this ship, if I let Grav slip out of my life?
    I just didn’t know.
    Suddenly my own face disappeared in a blur of static and a new face took its place.

Chapter Seven
    Leah
     
    “Oh!” I gasped,