Page 36 of Cops in Space
“You would do that for me?”Color me shocked.
He gave a slight bow.“You are the mother of my son.”
“Good to know.”Turning on the water, I showed the guys how the handheld shower heads worked. I held up a bottle.“This soap we use on our bodies.”I poured some on my palm and rubbed it over Jaxor’s scaly skin.
His excited squeals echoed off the walls.
“Taking a bath can be lots of fun,”I said, tickling his belly.
Gita bounced up and down on my shoulder.“Me too. Me too.”
Wetting her down, I washed all the goop off her fur.“See, very easy. Once you’re clean, you simply rinse the soap suds off. Any questions?”
“I do not wish to smell like a female,”Xyler growled.
“What? But the soap is aloe-based. Dad and Uncle Ben use it all the time.”
Xyler retorted,“Warriors do not smell like flowers.”
“You’d rather smell like dead things?”
“Yes.”
Why do I even try?“Okey-dokey, then.”
Gita spat a web ball at a large moth; it missed and hit Kaelen on the mouth. Emitting a squeak of alarm, she burrowed into my bra.
I squirmed. All those legs tickled like crazy, and I really needed some chocolate.
Kaelen stared at the ceiling for a moment, then pulled out his healing wand and ran it over the web ball.
To my utter relief, it dissolved quickly.“No shooting web balls until you’ve had more practice.”
“Kay.”Gita peeked out of my bra.“Me sorry.”
A gentle smile on his face, Kaelen stroked her head.“I know. I will check our data base on how to properly train a youngling.”
“Me like.”
Nix suddenly snatched the shower gel bottle out of my hand and ate it.
“No! Bad Nix. Spit! Right now. The soap is for washing the outside not the inside. C’mon, spit it out.”
Nix belched loudly,
Taking a deep, calming breath, I linked with Dad,“I need another bottle of shower gel.”
“Let me guess. One of the kids ate it.”
“Yep. Nix gobbled it right down.”
Dad chuckled.“Not surprised. Babies put everything in their mouths. On my way.”
I held up the bottle of shampoo. “This is used to wash our hair or in Gita’s case, fur.”
“We do not have fur or hair,”Xyler countered.
A rather nasty Tai-Kok curse popped into my mind.“I guess it would work on tentacles, but you should probably give it a pass.”
