No way to know for sure, since I hadn’t been wearing a watch when I came here with Gideon.
Gideon.
That flash — it had shocked me more than I wanted to admit. It was never easy to see yourself as others saw you. In this case, though, I didn’t know what to think.
Obviously, I hadn’t had much of a chance to look at myself in a mirror since I’d gotten here. If asked, though, I probably would have replied that my hair was a mess and the tinted lip balm I’d been wearing earlier that morning was long gone.
In Gideon’s eyes, though, I’d been a goddess, someone I didn’t even recognize, with a mane of long curls he wanted to bury his face in, skin he wanted to caress, lips he wanted to —
It was insane. He’d been raised among Reptilians, so why would he even be applying human standards of beaut
