Victoria and the Alien Doctor (Intergalactic Brides 2) by Jessica Coulter Smith Read Free Book Online Page B

before going to voicemail, which she hadn’t set up yet. He was beginning to feel frantic when he remembered the salesman had told him the phone had GPS so he could track it from anywhere. Calling the phone company, he gave them Victoria’s number and asked them to run a trace. Within minutes he had an answer, and it wasn’t one he liked.
    Taking the elevator back to the first floor, he hailed the limo before it could return to the Terran station. Ned popped out of the driver’s side and ran around to hold the door open for Xonos. Once Ned was behind the wheel again, Xonos rolled down the connecting window and barked out his orders.
    “Take me to the Shriner’s Hospital. And get there as fast as you can.”
    Ned nodded and peeled away from the curb, tires squealing as he floored it. Xonos checked his phone several times, willing it to ring. Why hadn’t Victoria brought Evie to him if she needed something? Had she taken a turn for the worse while he’d been at work? It bothered him that his daughter was ill and her mother had sought human medical assistance.
    When they reached the hospital, Xonos ran through the emergency room doors, heading straight for the triage desk. He demanded to know where Evie was and they immediately ushered him through the locked doors and down a long hall. When he flung open the door on the room with her chart tacked to the outside clip, his heart was pounding so hard he thought surely Victoria would hear it.
    His mate sat beside the hospital bed, her face streaked from her tears, as she held Evie’s hand. The girl looked pale in the child-sized bed. Xonos let the door close behind him as he stepped fully into the room.
    “What’s wrong with her? Why didn’t you bring her to me?” he asked.
    “She wouldn’t wake up from her nap. I tried everything, but she just kept sleeping. I listened to her heart and it seemed slow so I hailed a taxi and brought her here. You said we had to be mated before you could help her.”
    “We are mated. I had the Chief Counselor push through the papers tonight. Once he signs them, we’re officially mated. There’s a ceremony we can go through if you’d like, but it isn’t necessary.”
    “So you can help her?”
    “Yes, but I’d have to remove her from this hospital and take her to my clinic. Do you want me to do that? Or do you want to wait here and see what they say? They have a chart for her so they’ve obviously been treating her up to this point.”
    “I want you to help her.”
    Xonos nodded. “Give me a moment.”
    He went in search of the lead physician, explained the situation to the man and then signed the proper forms to have Evie’s care transferred to him. An ambulance took Victoria and Evie to the Terran station while Xonos followed in the limo. The EMTs wheeled the small girl into the clinic. Xonos took her to one of the nicer rooms and eased her onto the bed.
    Once he was left alone with Victoria and Evie, he went to get his gadgets, running a scan on her first. Other than the cancer being quite evident, there wasn’t anything else affecting her that he could see. He drew some blood and ran it for everything he could think of, adding in the new virus as a last resort and then went to the lab to process everything.
    Xonos returned to the room a short while later with a syringe in his hand. “It’s my fault she’s sick.”
    “How is it your fault?”
    “A virus swept through here today, but I’m guessing the germs were present yesterday. I treated nearly every person that works in the station. The virus is curable, so once I administer this, Evie should be fine.”
    He injected the serum into his daughter, then sat back and waited for it to work. When Evie’s eyes fluttered open a short while later, he breathed a sigh of relief. If she hadn’t woken, he didn’t know what he would have done. Syl wasn’t anywhere near ready to treat Evie, even though he was working on a serum that would delay her disease and keep her alive