Chapter Five
WHEN SHE HEARD SOMETHING hit the house, Penny started running. Whatever it was, it was too big to be a bird and she couldn’t think of why any other wildlife would try to attack them. As her feet pounded up the stairs, her gut twisted and she just knew what she was going to find on the other side of her door. Who she was going to find.
The door swung open and there he was. Penny flicked the light on with one hand and reached for her blaster with the other. A sizzling awareness blasted through her, heat and desire and other darker things. Thoughts that tried to tug her eyes to her bed, even as she kept them trained on the alien.
She hadn’t been prepared for his eyes. They glowed red, a burning ember over coal black where the whites should be.
Penny’s fingers tightened around
