A cool hand brushing over her face woke Dinah. She opened her eyes and saw a face she didn’t ever want to see—possibly for eternity. It was Grace, Arik’s drop-dead-gorgeous ex-girlfriend. While she wasn’t quite sure about the ex-girlfriend part, she did know for sure she had shattered Grace’s pretty head with a laser gun. Even though she knew she had only shot a space creature disguised as Grace, the idea she had put a beam to the head of a human had never set well with her. Grace smiled. Dinah frowned, unsure how to react. Is this the real Grace or another creature in disguise? “You have a lot of injuries. What did you do to yourself?” Dinah cleared her throat. “Thank you for taking care of me. You don’t know me, and there’s no way you would know about my injuries unless you scanned

