Read Online Hunted: BBW Alien Romance (Warriors of Karal Book 4) by Harmony Raines - Free Book Online

you see the doctor, the sooner you will heal. I want you to be in good shape when we leave.”
    “Lead the way.” She weaved in and out of the stores until she was by his side, and he wanted to kiss her lips, feel the heat of her passion. But he was scared if he touched her too much he would hurt her. She was right, it was a good job she couldn’t see her face in the mirror.
    Out of the storage bay, he turned left and walked along a corridor, past the mess room and then up a small flight of stairs. There they headed to where Darl had set up a temporary clinic to check over the warriors and the ground crew. This is where they found Darl.
    “Doctor.” Garth stood in front of Tamzin, not wanting Darl to react badly and make her even more self-conscious.
    “Garth. Ah, is this Tamzin?” Darl tried to peer around Garth, but he moved to block him, earning a frown from Darl. “Is everything OK?”
    “When we reached Tamzin, she was in a rain storm, and it burned her a little.”
    Darl’s face changed; he looked concerned, and excited. “Did you use the decon’ to mend her skin?”
    “No.” Garth shook his head. “It wasn’t that bad. I used the decon’ to remove the impurities in her system instead. A lot of sand.”
    “Oh, I see. Let me take a look then.” Darl’s expression became normal and relaxed, and Garth moved out of the way to allow Darl to take his first look at Tamzin.
    “Hi.” Tamzin waved briefly.
    “Hello, Tamzin, you have been in the wars, haven’t you?”
    “No, she was in the desert.” Garth frowned and then realisation spread across his face. “Okil said you liked to learn human sayings.”
    “I do. I like watching a lot of your old movies. The late twentieth, early twenty-first century are my favourites.” He moved back towards an examination table. “Come and lie down, let me take a look at you.”
    She hitched up her too-big overalls and went to sit on the table, while Darl dragged a tray of instruments towards him. Garth moved to stand by her side, resting a hand briefly on hers, trying to reassure her.
    “Yes, don’t worry, Tamzin. We don’t do alien experiments.”
    “You must have heard of the Roswell incident?” she asked.
    Darl smiled. “You certainly like these alien conspiracies, don’t you? I imagine when we landed it was not exactly how you thought it would be.”
    “No, we always went to war with them in the movies.”
    “Indeed. Now I’m just going to scrape a sample of your skin. Then I’ll test it and we can get you the right salve. It should clear up in a day or two. Luckily, you haven’t done too much damage. Does it hurt?”
    “No, it just feels a bit tight. You know, as if it’s wrinkled up.” She touched her face. “Is it bad?”
    “Looks worse than it is.” Darl used a small knife and scraped it on the back of her hand, catching the flakes of skin and then scooting across the room on his chair to pour something on it from a small vial. “I’ve seen worse, sometimes the warriors come back from space with burns. Touched the wrong plant or something like that.”
    “I’m lucky, I guess. My friends back on Earth have nothing like this, they just have to wait for it to heal.” She looked sad, and Garth found himself putting his hand on hers again. She smiled up at him and he saw how red and taut her skin was.
    “Well, next time there’s a transport down to Earth, I’ll send some of it to your friends.”
    “You can do that? Or are you just saying that to make me happy—you know, to prove you aren’t the bad guys.”
    Darl turned to her and laughed. “So the will to find aliens to be the bad guy still remains. I am so pleased. It’s one of the things I most enjoy about your movies. But to put your mind at ease, I can trace those you were with by their tags and find their location the same way.”
    “And you would do that?” Tamzin asked.
    “Certainly. We are not the bad guys.” Darl moved to another part of his office and began mixing