“Don’t look at my ass,” she warned as she climbed down.
“Wouldn’t dream of it,” he replied, but the sudden roughness in his voice made her smile to herself.
Yeah, the human male wasn’t as unaffected by her as he made out.
Eric’s lab turned out to be a small cargo hold toward the back of the ship. It was small, cramped and—given its proximity to the engine bay—hot as baked sand. Especially now that they were underway.
“I do apologize for the heat,” Eric murmured, already heading across the room toward a bank of air-cooling units. “This was the only space available on board.”
“Oh, don’t worry on my account,” she said, her body relaxing as the blessed heat seeped through her skin and into her bones. “We’re colder blooded than most species, so this is fantastic.”
“Really?” He turned with
