Chapter 68

Running footfalls sounded in the other room. “Kira, what’s happening?”

His voice was just on the other side of the door.

Kira looked in the mirror. “My eyes are orange.”

“Kira! What…?”

“Nothing else seems off, though,” she added. “But I saw what those

things did in the lab. If I transform completely, I don’t know if I’d be myself.

I don’t want to hurt you.”

“Well, a tiny bathroom isn’t the best place for you to be right now. We

need to get you somewhere where we can run tests and figure out what’s

going on.”

“Leon, you are being entirely too calm and rational right now,

considering I just told you I might be infected with alien nanotech!”

“Losing my shite won’t help you.”

Stars, she wished she could kiss him through the door. I am never letting

this guy go again. She took a deep breath. “Thank you.”

“Now, if I recall, Melissa didn’t shift as long as she was calm,” Leon

continued. “I know you’re freaking out right now, but take slow, steady