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Hell,nada.

His brain stuttered between disbelief and awe at her raw, kinetic power and beauty.

Her astral eyes locked onto his as she landed on the brute’s backside, and for a moment, time paused.

Ki’Remi’s lungs seized, breath catching as a visceral reaction twisted inside him.

A primal, unknown, dangerous emotion beyond attraction.

With a wry twist of her sensuous lips, she jammed the needled sedative straight into the Iccythrian’s thick neck.

As she did, a flash of light erupted from her hands, an incandescent flare so bright twas not of this world.

He got the sense she’d just jacked up the tranquilizer’s effect.

The colossus roared, and with a mighty groan, he fell to his knees in a loud thump.

The impact was mammoth, shaking the entirefokkin’ deck.

He then collapsed in a slow, squealing anti-climactic slide that ended at Ki’Remi’s feet.

Silence descended upon the corridor.

Medics, nurses, and interns stared in stunned disbelief.

Ki’Remi didn’t blink nor move; he just scowled at the woman riding the leviathan’s back.

She paused and hesitated, and without a second thought, the brooding surgeon stepped forward to help her off the IniMoabite’s mountainous bulk.

One arm wrapped around her waist as she placed her hand in his.

He swung her through the air, and it seemed time itself slowed.

When her soles touched the floor, their eyes locked.

All he felt were her hands, petite, yet so searing hot, burning into his skin.

He hissed, for it twas like a flaming marque imprinting into his palm.

She pulled away the second her feet were both on the ground, and he lifted his grasp off her.

Still, the heat remained, and the scorching did not diminish. It lingered, so scalding that it singed right into his soul.

Ki’Remi’s world shifted, his entire existence whirling around him as if life might never be the same again.

He slow-blinked, his heart churning even as the unknown woman stepped away from him with effortless grace.

She tossed a look at him, an unhurried, deliberate lift of her chin.

‘Who the hell are you?’ he gritted, narrowing his gaze on her.

She angled her head, an amused glint in her eye.

‘Name? he growled in a warning whisper, his height looming over her petite frame.

He noted she locked those unusual eyes with him, sans fear.

‘Dr Issa Elaris.’