10 Chapter 10

His handsome features had adopted an expression of amazement, with a hesitant elation creeping in, similar to how I thought someone like Alexander Graham Bell might have looked when he heard a voice actually coming from the other end of the line during the world’s first telephone call. Or how Louis Pasteur might have appeared after he injected his patient with the world’s first rabies vaccine and the patient actually recovered from the illness.

“Hell, it’s only a birthmark, Sky. Nothing to get excited about, I’m sure.”

He stood in silence, chewing his lower lip and staring at my chest. Although he actually seemed to be looking through me, not at me.

I chuckled, then cupped his stubbly jaw in the palm of my hand and lifted his gaze to meet mine. “Earth to Novak, Earth to Novak. Come in, Novak.”

“Huh?” He snapped back to the moment. “What was that you said?”

“My stupid birthmark…it’s hardly the stuff of miracles.”