observed you, too. Including your eyes.”
“I bet you have.”
Her voice was like a balm, and the casually, almost flirty conversation seemed to be just the application he needed. He relaxed considerably. “They’re slate grey. They contrast fantastically with your hair.” Soft red hair, that lay in wispy, lazy piles of waves pinned to the top of her head, begging him to pull it down.
Celise smiled softly and reached for his arm. His cock twitched briefly at her touch. “I’d like to give you a check-up, starting with taking a blood sample, if that’s okay. I’ll move quickly so your food doesn’t get cold.”
Forcing his eyes not to dip past her face for too long, he allowed her to take his arm in her hand. He clutched his hands in a fist both proactively so that she could more easily access a vein and to help him concentrate on not proving her right about his wandering gaze. She poked the needle at him once. Twice. Three times. It was painful, but not nearly as much as trying to ignore the way her heat seemed to jump off her and onto him. He needed this over with fast, so he could put some more distance between them.
“Ouch, quit stabbing me, doc.”
“Sorry, I can’t seem to get the needle to break your skin. Now I see why they used the tranquilizer gun on you. They had to shoot you to get the needles to penetrate.”
Penetrate. Jaxon licked his lips. She was moving too slow, and he needed her at least a foot away from him. “Maybe you’re just not fast or strong enough. Let me help. Guide me.” He took the needle from her and she wrapped her smaller hand around his, the contact further warming his skin and stimulating his senses.
She guided him at an angle at his vein and he pushed, finally getting through. After filling the vial, she moved to press a cotton swab against his arm, but the blood stopped completely as soon as she removed the needle.
“Did my vein just close off?”
“Yeah, looks like it already healed from the prick.” Celise said, examining his arm. “Impressive”
“Ah, the super healing effect. Well, at least that part of the formula worked.”
“I’m beginning to think a lot of this you’re experiencing was an anticipated result of the working formula,” Celise said. “I think it’s the way it happened, and the extent to which you changed in such a short period of time that wasn’t expected.”
“They said I would be able to heal and regenerate instantly, and that I would be stronger than I’ve ever been. They didn’t say I was going to be a fucking seven-foot tall Incredible Hulk with lizard eyes instead of green skin.”
She laughed and pulled a thermometer out of her pocket. “I actually thought Dr. David Banner was sexy, personally. Open your mouth.”
He narrowed his eyes suspiciously at her. “Sexy as a dorky scientist, or big, mean and green? Because I’m neither one of those. Usually.”
“Both, actually. And Titan Formula or not, you’ve always been somewhat dorky and ‘hulky’ in my eyes. Now open.”
Jaxon watched Celise as he let her stick the thermometer under his tongue, and closed his lips down on it to hold it in place. Her own full, pouty lips were messing with him, making him think of a several things he’d like to do with them. When she pulled the thermometer out, she caught his gaze and their eyes met briefly, but then she cleared her throat and kept her eyes on her clipboard as she made some notes.
“It’s like staring into the eyes of Kermit the Frog, eh?”
“Not exactly.”
“I don’t get it. Of all of the unexpected results—how the hell did I get gator eyes?”
“The regenerative traits are reptilian in origin.”
“You mean to tell me they really did manage to splice me with a lizard?”
“Amongst other things. But all of that was explained to you at the very beginning, Officer Wentworth.”
“I know, I know. I guess I didn’t know what I was expecting. And stop calling me Officer Wentworth, we’ve been
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