I rose from my bed and moved across to crouch beside hers. She did not move, although I noticed she did flinch. I took her hand in mine and smiled. “You can’t be that good a judge of character, Iris, if you didn’t realise one thing about me.”
“What, that you’re attracted to freaks?”
“No. That I have a thing for robots.”
I placed my thumb and finger on her chin and kissed her. Her lips were coarse, dehydrated and stained with dirt and blood. They were the sweetest thing I had ever tasted. For a moment she resisted, but it was more through surprise than anything, for then she returned the kiss, her arm encircling me and folding me into her embrace. I lay beside her on the bed, aware of my injury, aware of hers, but still unable to prevent my hand roving across her body as we lost ourselves in what promised to become more than just a kiss.
“Hey,” Wraith’s voice came over the speaker, startling me so much I fell off the bed. “No funny business in there. Doctor’s orders. Jeez, some people.”
Lying on the floor, looking up at Arowana’s concerned face gazing down upon me, I laughed. A smile crinkled Arowana’s lips and I decided in that moment that it did not matter what the three of us chose to do next. I never thought I would find love again, but this time I knew it was for real. This time it was forever.
This time I had found a woman who could truly love me back, and that was all I had ever wanted.
Also available by the same author in e-book and paperback:
Dinosaur World books:
Excavating a Dinosaur World
Dinosaur Fall-Girl
Dinosaur Plague Doctor
Ike Scarman & the Dinosaur Slavers of Ceres
Dinosaur Prison World
The Dinosaur That Wasn’t
Awfully Wedded Strife
Tales of a Dinosaur Prison World
Deities of a Dinosaur World
Return to the Dinosaur Prison World
Nikolina Finch & the Dinosaur Utopia
Of Stags, Hens & Dinosaurs
Dinosaur World Gladiator
Dinosaur World Massacre
Dino-Racers
Christmas on a Dinosaur World
Utara the Savage
Sheriff Grizzly:
Book 1: Sheriff Grizzly
Book 2: The Horse Thief Honey
Book 3: The Coyote Colt Kid
Book 4: Joins the Circus
Game books:
Lost Treasures of a Dinosaur World
The Underworld Horror
Knights of Torbalia game books:
The Return of the Stolen Jewel
Into the Massacre
March of the Demon Trees
The Thief of Tarley Manor
Book 1: The Villainous Heroes
Book 2: The Heroic Villains
Book 3: The Forge of Heroes
Detective books:
Detective’s Ex
One-Way Ticket to Murder
Who Slew Santa?
The Curse of the Genie’s Detective
The Woman Who Cried Diamonds
The Murder of Snowman Joe
The Murder of Loyalty
The Prostitute Butcher
Operation WetFish, Vampire Detective:
Book 1: The Power of Life and Death
Book 2: Chasing Innocence
Book 3: The Hunt for Charles Baronaire
Book 4: Christmas on the Kerb
Book 5: A Necessary Evil
Book 6: No Comment
Book 7: Fear and Ecstasy
Book 8: Call of the Siren
Book 9: Happy Families
Book 10: A Step in the Right Direction
Book 11: What Money Can’t Buy
Book 12: ‘Tis the Season
Book 13: The Power Trip
Book 14: Trust and Betrayal
Book 15: A Gathering of Minds
Miscellaneous:
Holding the Nuts
One Week to Love: Speed Dating of the Gods
The Trojan Ant
Gauntlet of Daedalus
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