He had told her one of his secrets, it was now for Kat to tell him one of hers.
Chapter Fourteen:
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“I don’t need to go to medbay, I was teasing about the aches. They’re so minor I’ll be better after a night’s rest,” Kat teased...and pleaded.
“And what about your cramps?”
“The beginning of a monthly. Can’t you tell?” She blushed and squinted when they entered the bay and the bright white lights powered on. It was always a shock to be in a well-lit room these days. It was even more so to see the Cyborg without his cloak of shadows. “Look, I should go check my message log and get back to Mia. Shouldn’t you be piloting?”Please work.
He set her gently on a pallet. “Are you afraid? A nurse, afraid of being looked at?”
“I saw Dr. Cagley yesterday, I’m fine,” she said as the pain of her cramps came back, making her flinch.
Kat sat up and watched as Dommik grabbed a reader off the wall and came towards her.What if he finds something? I don’t want him to know my medical history.Kat went to stand when his arm snaked around her waist and pressed her back onto the bed.
“I know you’re hiding something from me, Kat, I know when I’m being lied to by humans.” He warned, but released her. She didn’t breathe. “But I won’t force you to tell me.”
He lifted the medical reader between them, expectantly, waiting for her to come clean. She bit the inside of her cheek and glared at him in challenge.Damn you.“Was Argo a lie?”
Dommik looked surprised at the question and she felt a twinge of guilt.
“No.”
“Then why are you trying to get to know me? You could barely stand me not even yesterday morning.” Kat tugged the sheet from under her and wrapped it around her naked body. She couldn’t help but flinch as he set down the reader with rage furrowing his brows.
He made her angry by being angry.
“What’s it going to be? I let you back on my ship, I opened myself up to you and not because of forming some sort of connection between us, but because you chose this course. You chose me and whether you thought about it or not, you chose to go with me into Trentian airspace.” He leaned over her, making her fall back into the bed. “You trust me with your life but you won't trust me with your secrets?”
Kat glared at him while her heart raced in tempo with the medical equipment’s light. She glanced at the reader sitting next to her and decided.
There’s nothing wrong with me. He won’t find anything. And if he does…
It wouldn’t matter anyway.
She picked up the instrument and handed it to him. He took it from her slowly, their fingers brushed against each other sending electric shivers through her.
“You won’t find anything,” she whispered and laid back. Their eyes remained locked as he flipped on the machine and ran it over her body.
“Then what are you so worried about?” he asked, his anger tempered.
“I don’t know.”
His eyes left hers as he ran each of her limbs under the reader, quietly, tenderly and almost as if he was polite about it, if he sneaked up on it, there wouldn’t be anything to find.Like a hunter.Kat steadied herself.
One arm down. Her hand. Her fingers. The other arm, up from her palm and over her shoulder and neck.
Nothing.
The readings were beyond her sight but she watched Dommik’s face. It was all she needed to know.
He ran it over her chest, her torso and each breast. Kat’s breathing picked up. Down he went over her ribs, running his knuckles over her after each swipe of the reader. Until it reached her stomach and his movements went even slower, eyes hooded and concentrating.
His face cringed. His finger tapped.
It beeped.
