Chapter ten:

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Another day full of rain and nothing to do was ahead of us. I was starting to get over this, I really was. Why does it have to take so damn long to get rid of a storm? Colt was sleeping and to be honest I hoped he slept for a few more hours just so it wouldn’t be awkward.

I acted as though the kiss last night was nothing but it did affect me. A lot more than it should.

I thought of Alexander from heaven. He was super cute and overly sexy and has impeccable manners. I wonder if he had a girlfriend, or wife? I contemplated the pros and cons of dating a Guardian, not Alexander specifically, but just dating in general now that I was well, dead and all.

I looked outside and saw that although it was raining, it no longer was the hectic raging storm. It varied between light and hard rain so I muttered a ‘thanks’ for that. When the rain lightened to a shower I decided to walk through the forest and look around. I picked up one of the metal pieces of the boat that we collected before the storm and headed towards the forest. I left a note in the sand telling Colt I’d gone for walk.

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The walk was probably a better idea in my head because I was now covered in mud and leaves. I’d fallen in a pool of mud when I tripped over a hidden root and gave myself an unwanted mud facial. God, I was seriously dying for a shower! I’d gathered some sticks and dried them out so I could build a fire later and plopped them down into the shelter before heading to the ocean.

I absolutely refuse to continue this way, covered in mud and leaves with my hair a tangled mess.

I stripped off my shorts, it was much harder than I thought it would be to take off soaking denim, and rushed to the water. I was about to untie my bikini top when I stopped myself. Did I really want to make it harder for me to resist Colt if he woke up and saw me naked in the sea? I sighed, no, I really needed to get a hold of myself.

Hormones! You need to settle the heck down!

I ran to the waves and scrubbed the drying mud off my skin. Oh, my skin actually feels pretty good, I laughed, I guess it really was a mud bath and facial. I ran my fingers through my hair and tugged at all the knots and tangles letting my hair float out around me.

Mmm, it wasn’t a steaming hot shower, but it’ll do.

I walked back to the shelter to see a small fire burning outside the little hut. What the hell? It was still raining so the fire was burning under a large curved piece of broken boat offering it shelter from the rain but had enough room to burn freely.

“Hey” Colt greeted me.  “Where did you find dry sticks?”

I smiled, I didn’t, I dried them out with my super Guardian Angel powers, “I found a bunch of them near some big boulders, so I guess I was lucky to come across them”

Colt nodded and raked his eyes down my body. I remembered that I was clad in only my bikini and realized it was probably a mistake taking off my shorts because they were practically impossible to get on now.

“Went for a swim I see” Colt stated with a smirk.

I chuckled and squeezed the water from my hair giving myself something else to do besides look at him. How did he have the ability to make me feel like mush? It wasn’t even fair.

***

The rain had finally let up and the clouds were thinning and I decided it was best to give the coast guard a call again, just in case they forgot about us.

“So what did they say?” Colt asked when I finished with the phone call.

“They said they will definitely be able to get someone to us by morning” I replied. “I just hope they get to us really, really early in the morning. I’m so sick of this place” Seriously, I wish I knocked Colt out when our boat exploded, then I could’ve just teleported us back tore.

Damnit, too late now.

I was get getting a bad case of island fever and seriously needed a good dose of civilization. Being stuck on a deserted island with Colt wouldn’t have been so bad if we hadn’t been stuck in the middle of a storm. I needed some space between us because I was in serious danger of falling for the handsome man.

“Mina… I don’t know how many times I can tell you this for it to even be enough but I just want to say thank you. Thank you so much for everything you’ve done. I can’t believe I’ve put you in the middle of all of this. Someone like you doesn’t deserve this shit.” Colt told me looking straight into my eyes.

I could feel his sadness coming off him in waves and I didn’t know what to say. So I did the most stupid thing I could’ve done… I leaned forward and kissed him.

I kissed his worries away and tried to make him feel like he was someone who didn’t deserve to go through these situations as well. He had such a tough exterior but being stranded here with him opened my eyes to the broken man inside.

He responded to the kiss with such an amazing passion it could have knocked me off my feet. Oh God what was I doing? Why am I making it harder for myself to resist him?

Because you love him, a small voice told me.

I froze. Oh God no… I didn’t love him.

Did I?

I’ve hardly known the guy, I can’t love him. Maybe I just really lusted after him. Yeah, that’s it.

Colt rough hands travelled up my spine and I shivered, damn the man has amazing hands. No! Damnit woman stop thinking about him! I pulled back sucking in much needed air into my lungs and avoided his eyes scratching the back of my neck.

“So uh… yeah. I’m going to head to sleep and maybe I won’t have to wait very long for the coast guard. Yep, night!” I squeaked.

“Aren’t you hungry? We still have some food left for dinner-“

“Nope, no I’m all good. Night” said ending the conversation. I flipping the blanket over my shoulders and turned around facing away from him. I heard him sigh and mutter something but I didn’t hear what he said.

I squeezed my eyes shut and forced unconsciousness to fall over me.

***

“No, I’m totally fine. I’m a doctor and I’m certain there’s nothing wrong with me but he’ll need to see someone. He has a gunshot wound on his torso and a small gash on the back of his head. I’ve cleaned and bandaged them while we were stranded but they’ll need to check it again and he’ll need stitches, maybe a head scan as well.” I announce to the paramedics once we were back on shore.

The coast guards picked us up early in the morning, to my relief, and when we arrived back to shore they had an ambulance waiting for us. I was swatting them away from me because I honestly didn’t need it, but more from the fact that I couldn’t go to the hospital.

I was dead. What would my co-workers think if they saw me there after announcing my time of death? No, I had to stay far away from them but make sure Colt got taken care of.

“Mina! No, you need to get looked at! Even if it’s for dehydration!” Colt was yelling to me. He was being held back by the paramedics because he was trying to get to me.

“Colt! Stop acting like a child and let them see to you. I’m fine but you’re not! I need to go but I’ll visit you later ok?” I called back to him before walking away to answer questions from the police.

“Mina STOP!” He shouted. His eyes were a bit crazed and I guess that’s all it took for the paramedics to give him a sedative and get to work on him before he bled out again.

[Colt’s POV]

She never visited.

I knew I should’ve punched the damn paramedic in the face when they started holding me back. I was so worried that she needed to be looked at even though she acted as though nothing happened. Then when the police wanted to talk to her I nearly had a heart attack. What if the boss had people on the inside? What if she says a little too much?

I was currently staring blankly at the tv, not really watching it, getting nothing but a headache from the thoughts dashing around my head. Thinking too much about what could go wrong was making my blood pressure spike which caused the doctors to keep me in for even longer so that the nurses could take my blood pressure every hour to ‘keep an eye on me’.

This is f*cking ridiculous!

I needed to get out! I needed to speak to Mina, no screw that, I needed to see her!

My mind rushed back to the shooting on the boat and what I put her through over the last three days. No, I didn’t deserve to see her. It’s no wonder why she never came back to see me like she said. She was too good for someone like me and it was probably better for her if she stayed away.

“And how are we feeling Mr Parker?” a robust nurse asked waddling in.

“Fine” I murmured rolling my eyes. Let me guess… temperature, blood pressure, bandages, medication.

“That’s good. Well, I’m Tracey and I’ll be taking care of you for the night shift” she told me smiling while she dug through the medical supplies. “I’m just going to take your temperature and BP then check your bandages to see how your stitches are.”

Bingo, I told you.

She pulled out an ear thermometer and lightly pressed it in my ear until it beeped then went over to the BP machine to check how it was going now.

“Hmm, it’s still a little high but much better than the last few times” she said more to herself than to me. “Okay, now if you could just lay back I’ll check your stitches.”

I did what she said and sighed. I’d been doing this for the last two days and it was worse than being stuck on an island in the middle of a storm. The nurse smelt of the hand sanitizers that were stuck to the wall in every room and wall in the hallway and she hummed a tuneless song.

I winced. What the hell was she doing? She was poking my stitches like it was a damned pedestrian crossing button.

“Ouch! Yes they’re intact. Would you please stop?” I cried to her. She smirked at me and handed me some pills. “What are these?” I ask suspiciously.

“They’re antibiotics. You could have an infection and these are to take in I case you have one.”

“Err, ok?” I took the three white pills and dry swallowed them. “Now, when I go?”

“Not for a while Mr Parker”

Her voice was a bit muffled, as though talking underwater, and I stuck a finger in my ear wiggling it around.

“Sorry what was that?”

I stared at her but could only see her lips moving. My vision became blurred and there looked like there were two Traceys smirking at me.

“What did you give me?” I slurred at the not so innocent nurse before my body slumped to the side.

The last thing I saw were two burly looking men step inside the room and shut the door before blackness took over.

Ergh, I have the biggest damn headache in the world. I definitely should buzz in the nurse for pain killers, it feels like my head is going to split open. Well, even more than it already is.

I open my eyes expecting to see the sterile hospital room but was instead greeted by a sleek office. What the f*ck?

“Ah, I see you’re awake Colt”

I froze. Oh sh*t, it can’t be?

I turn my head to the spot where the voice came from and my eyes narrowed.

It was the boss.

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A/N

Hey everyone, I know it’s a really boring chapter but I made the mistake of saying the storm was two days and I suppose I had to pull through with it… Anyhoo, it’ll get better. This chapter was bleh and was more of a filler chapter I suppose.

So where did Aramina go? What does the boss want?

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