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Back Off Planet
Chapters (54)
  1. Title Page
  2. Also by Aileen Erin
  3. Dedication
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Chapter Sixteen
  20. Chapter Seventeen
  21. Chapter Eighteen
  22. Chapter Nineteen
  23. Chapter Twenty
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. Chapter Forty-One
  45. Chapter Forty-Two
  46. Chapter Forty-Three
  47. Chapter Forty-Four
  48. Chapter Forty-Five
  49. Chapter Forty-Six
  50. Chapter Forty-Seven
  51. Off Balance
  52. To My Readers
  53. Acknowledgments
  54. About the Author

A little while later, Roan left me to shower. He stank, and I wanted a shower, too. I’d been in new clothes when I’d woken up, but according to Lorne, it’d taken days in the healing beds for me to fully recover. I wasn’t sure who had changed me and put me in these clothes, but it didn’t really matter. Not anymore.

I was going to have to find a way to keep going. Lorne said I’d been asleep for a week, but I felt like I could sleep for another month straight. I knew that not all of my exhaustion could be blamed on my physical state, although I realized as I showered that I was thinner than I’d ever been before and that was saying something. There were a few times when we’d been on the run that food had been pretty scarce. I could easily count my ribs and when I spotted my back in the mirror while undressing, I could see the little knobs on my spine.

I knew I hadn’t been eating great while on Abaddon, especially since I’d been burning through so many calories on the surface and during my nano treatments, but I didn’t realize it’d gotten this bad.

Lorne was right. I was going to need to work to get my body back to speed. The exercise would help me get my mood balanced, too, but as I rinsed the soap from my body, I realized that I needed something to fight for. Something to do. Because the lost feeling that was threatening to drown me wasn’t going to go away easily.

After a while, I stopped hoping that the shower would somehow fix everything and shut off the stream of hot water. I wrapped myself in a soft, green towel and went in search of clothes.

I couldn’t find any closet or dresser in the bedroom, so I walked back to the bathroom. I’d assumed the door in it was a linen closet, but when I opened it, I found a walk-in closet filled to the brim with clothes.

I almost stepped out, not wanting to use clothes that weren’t mine, but I had to wear something. I couldn’t hide in my room wrapped in a towel forever, no matter how appealing that was. I had to start living again. I just didn’t know what that meant, but I’d figure it out somehow.