“You’re here,” she stuttered as she looked up. He was clearly dressed for work. His dark grey suit was cut close to his figure, and she wanted nothing more than to slide her fingers between the buttons of his crisp white shirt.
“I am here,” he said awkwardly. “I did this thing yesterday, and I thought you might get in touch with me. And when you didn’t, I thought you might be mad at me. So I came over so you could yell at me.”
“You came over so I could yell at you?” she repeated stupidly. She was getting lost in those blue eyes.
“Yes. Are you going to yell at me?”
“What?” She shook her head as she tried to regain her composure. “No. I’m not going to yell at you. I just got the article. Literally. I tend to avoid everything these days. Lizzie brought it over.”
“Thanks for the exposure,” Lizzie called from inside the apartment.
His shoulders straightened, and he smiled. “Well, you don’t want to yell at me. So what do you want to do?” he murmured.
“Did you mean it? What you said? Or were you just trying to be nice?”
“I meant every word.”
Gemma took a deep breath. “I felt something that night, Charlie. And I’d like to see where it goes. But I don’t think it’s going to be easy. We both attract way too much attention.”
“I don’t need it to be easy, Gemma,” he said softly. “I just need you to be on board with me.”
“I’m on board,” she said as she smiled. She thought her heart would burst from excitement. He bent down to kiss her, and it felt right. As she wrapped her arms around him, she knew that this was only the beginning. They could forge something truly beautiful together.
She’d started the week broke, depressed, and in the arms of the most notorious rake in the city. And now she was about to give him her heart, and she knew that she’d never look back.
THE END
ALIEN’S DESTINED MATE
Chapter 1
“Come on Sara, I heard this place can match you up with the perfect man almost all the time! They have an average of 95% of their couples who get together and marry each other. You really can’t beat that average. Plus look at your history when you’ve picked your own men.” Sara listened to her friend Jen say.
Sara couldn’t disagree with the part about her having a bad time dating. The last few men she had dated had turned out to be nothing but trouble. Hell she couldn’t remember the last really meaningful relationship she had. “I don’t know, I mean an alien? Is that even real? I’ve heard of this type of thing before, but I always thought it was just made up.” Sara Abrahm said.
“Okay look I don’t know if it is really alien’s or not, but they have to be better than the choices you’ve made.” Jen stated.
“You really think I can’t pick a man for myself?” Sara asked.
“Really, let’s look at your record so far. Tommy, he was a worthless man who tried to take all your credit information. He almost got away with it too; you were so blinded by his words of love.” Jen stopped and looked at Sara. “Or what about Jim, he couldn’t keep a job for a month straight. He used you for your money and bought beer with your savings. I mean come on Jen you seem to find the men who are the least responsible types in the world. My younger brother is more mature than either of those two will most likely ever be, and he’s only 11.” Jen laughed at her joke.
Sara looked at her and had to admit that even the one other man she had in her life had been about the same type of loser. “You forgot to mention Jay, we can’t forget about him. He was such a momma’s boy he couldn’t do anything without Okaying it with her first.” Sara admitted.
“At least he didn’t steal your money or try to take your identity that was the only good thing about Jay. But yeah he wasn’t the type of man you need either. As long as his mother is alive he’ll never be a good match for a woman. Once she is gone and dead, he’ll be too messed up to make a good match though. So don’t think if she dies you should hook back up with him either.” Jen warned Sara sternly.
“I wasn’t thinking about that, trust me any feelings I had for Jay ended a long time ago. Well I guess what could go wrong; maybe they’ll find a really nice guy. But honestly do you think they are real aliens? Have you seen any pictures of what these matches look like?” Sara asked her curiosity peaked.
“Let’s pull up their website; they might have a few pictures of past matches. But I think they are really strict about their privacy policy. So they might keep the identities hidden. However, we can go look, you don’t have to sign up or set up an appointment, but honestly I think it would be a good thing for you.” Jen said.
“Do you know anyone who signed up for it before?” Sara asked as she moved her computer in front of her.
“Just someone’s friend at work, but I don’t know the girl who did, her friend told me about it. You know Martha at my job right?” Jen asked.
“Yeah I remember her, the older lady, she’s nice.” Sara answered.
“I guess one of her good friends signed up and was matched up quickly. Martha said that they got married about 4 months ago, and her friend has never been happier.” Jen said.
“So did you ask her if he was a real alien or not?” Sara asked, her curiosity getting the best of her.
“I did, but she said he looked pretty human to her.” Jen admitted.
“So maybe it’s just a publicity thing so they can get more women to join?” Sara said.
“Maybe, but with a 95% accuracy rate of good matches does it matter?” Jen stated.
“I guess not, well let’s look at it first before I say yes though. What’s the name of the site again?” Sara asked.
“I think I wrote it in my phone, hold on.” Jen pulled out her phone and looked at it for a few minutes. Here it is AlienMajorbrides.com.” Jen said.
Sara pulled up the site on her computer. “Well here it is, let’s see what some of the men look like on the site. Hmm, I have to join the site and set up an appointment first to get access.” Sara sat and looked at the prices to join the site.
“Well how much is it? How soon can you set up an appointment? Tell me, come on, you aren’t getting any younger.” Jen pushed her.
“Hold on a second, okay I guess I’ll do this, I have to set up the appointment first. They’ll tell me about the service and if I want to join at that time, they’ll charge me $150. But that gives me access to the site and pictures wait, let me read this through first.” Sara read the information and then looked at Jen. “I guess I’ll try it. They have a money back guarantee that if you aren’t happy with their match you get almost all the money back.”
“So when is your appointment?” Jen asked.
“It says they will call me in the next hour to explain everything to me.” Sara said.
“Oh you don’t even have to go to their office? That’s nice; I wonder how soon they’ll get a match for you?” Jenn said. “I’m so excited that you are taking this step Sara. It’s about time you moved on and tried something different.”
“Well if it is really an alien, that’s completely different!” Sara stated.
They talked a bit more, talking about her poor dating choices in the past and laughing. Thankfully, Sara was able to laugh about the past now. But not too long ago she would have burst out in tears at the mention of her last boyfriend, Tommy.
Jen was right; he was a piece of garbage. He had wooed Sara so well and had almost completely gotten everything he needed to set up accounts in her name, without her knowledge. The truth was he might have gotten away with it, if the teller he had talked to hadn’t known Sara. But he had picked the wrong bank to try his scheme at, and had gotten caught.
Sara found out she had a few purchases on her other card that he had made, and pressed charges against Tommy. He had turned on her like a rabid dog at that point, the loving words no longer streamed from his mouth. Instead he had thrown words at her that she hadn’t heard in her life before.
Tommy hadn’t been the prince charmi
ng she had hoped he would be, at least she had found out before he had finished draining her accounts and taking her identity though. Sara knew that she had a problem picking out a decent guy. Out of the three she had dated, none had ever lasted long.
Sometimes it bugged her that she was 24 years old and not married yet. All of her childhood friends had been married already; sure most of them had divorced also. But there will still some of them who were with their first mate. The others had moved on and found new husbands too. Jen though had been with her high school sweetheart, for the past 10 years now. They had married as soon as high school graduation was over, the very next week anyway. Sara often looked at the two of them together and was jealous, but happy at the same time. She really loved them both, but why was it so hard for her to find love?
Her phone rang and she answered it. Jen listened intently to Sara’s side of the conversation.
“Yes this is Sara Abram. Yes I would like to hear more about it. But could you tell me first are they really aliens? Do they look different from us? Do they have the same body parts as Earth men? How about kids, are they able to have them?” Sara rattled off her questions.
Jen watched as Sara shook her head and listened to the other side of the call. She wished that Sara had put it on speaker phone so she could hear everything that was being said.
“Well that’s nice. So how long does it usually take for you to match me up with someone? What if I don’t like the first one, and want you to try again? Okay, right. I see. I think I’ll sign up; I would like to put the charge on my card. How about making my profile, and all that?” Sara asked. “Alright, and okay, here are the numbers.”
She hung up the phone and Jen asked immediately, “Okay so tell me everything.”
“She said that yes they are aliens, and that usually kids will have to be discussed with your potential mate. It may be possible, or may not. I’m not so sure if I would want them or not. They look human with a few minor differences that she stated most people will barely notice. I could possibly have a date in as little as a day, and if I didn’t like the first one and wanted to try again they would simply charge me another 50 or keep 50 dollars instead of giving me the full 125 back that they take. So I would get 75 back, since they keep 25 for their services. Really it didn’t sound like a bad deal. She said that they screen the aliens very well. They don’t have a site where you get to choose someone, but they pick out someone for you.” Sara explained.
“Well how about if you don’t find him attractive?” Jen asked.
“I don’t know, this is why they offer the money back I guess. But she stated that with all of their past people they’ve done the same thing. I guess we’ll see just how good they are. She said I’ll get an email from them with a couple of choices, possibly. But most of the time they give you one person, and stand by that choice.” Sara said.
“I’m interested to see how this system of theirs works.” Jen said.
“Oh I send her my information via email, I don’t create the profile. From what I tell her and what they read about me, they will make the match. She suggested that we get that to her as soon as possible, it will speed up the process.” Sara stated.
“So let’s start!” Jen told her.
“I will she is sending me a few questions of what they like to know. Let me see, oh it’s here already. Wow they are fast!” Sara said.
“What kind of things do they ask?” Jen questioned.
“The normal things, what are you looking for, what do you like, etc. I don’t see anything I haven’t heard from Sally before.” Sara said. Sally was one of their friends who had found her last husband via another dating site. She had told Jen and Sara about the questioned she had answered. “Of course they need a picture of me, and they also want to know my measurements!” Sara laughed.
“Do you have to write some cute little thing about yourself?” Jen asked.
“Let me look. Not really, just those few things. Oh did you realize that this was a mail order bride site for aliens?” Sara asked Jen.
“Really, no, I was just told it was a dating site. So they still offer you the chance to make a choice too?” Jen asked.
“No she said that the women must be considered in their service. She pushed that high satisfaction rating a lot though during the conversation.” Sara said.
“Well at least you get a choice!” Jen said.
Sara looked at her computer and typed in her answers to the questions. “Really there isn’t much here, I’m about done, now we just need to pick out a good picture to include.” Sara said.
“Oh I know the perfect one to choose. The one from the beach last summer that was a really good one of you.” Jen stated.
Sara looked through her pictures on the computer and pulled up one that showed her lying on the beach. Her skimpy bathing suit did nothing to hide her curves. That was the way she liked it though. Her 145 pound body had muscles in all the right places; she prided herself on being in really good shape.
“No wait, the other one where you have your eyes open. You know men love your blonde hair and blue eyes.” Jen said.
“Oh you mean this one?” Sara asked as she pulled up another picture.
“Perfect one, that will make any guy want you. Do the guys pick you or the staff picks the match?” Jen asked.
“I think the staff matches us up, but she just ran through that rather quickly. She was excited hearing me talk though. She was a really nice girl, said she had some really great matches that she might be able to find for me.” Sara said.
“Well I have to go, Jake is going to get home soon and I want to have supper ready.” Jen said standing up to go. “Tell me as soon as you find out about your match.” Jen said and gave her a hug before leaving.
Sara sighed at the computer. She was nervous about this service. But she was also excited at the new adventure that awaited her. She hoped the agency had better luck in finding her a match then she had her whole life.
Chapter 2
Sara got up the next day and was sipping her coffee as she pulled up her email. “Oh wow, I already got a match!” She said out loud and pulled up the email from Alien Major.
Dear Ms. Abram,
We would like to show you a match we feel will be great for you!
His name is Drax; he is the equivalent of 24 years old in human years. He would like to take you out tonight at 8 pm. Please let us know as quickly as possible when you see this email that you are acceptable to this arrangement. Please see attached file for a picture of Mr. Drax.
Thank you,
Jane
Alien Major Bliss Department
Sara had to laugh a bit at the name of the department. But then she pulled up the picture. “Oh he doesn’t look alien. He has a bit longer face, but really I’ve seen a few people like that before. Well maybe they were alien and I didn’t know it though!” She laughed.
As she looked closer the only feature she could really tell was alien on him, well that she could see in the picture, were an extra ear lobe. But she liked his short cut black hair, and his chiseled features. He looked like a warrior, tough and yet there was something in his eyes that said he could possibly be gentle as well! She looked again at his eyes and saw that they looked almost gray in color, but upon closer investigation, she saw flecks of brilliant blue and yellow spread through the gray.
“Oh those eyes, those are something else!” She said as she continued to stare into them.
She quickly responded and said she was more than happy to go out with him tonight. Then she picked up her phone and called Jen. “I have a date tonight, and he’s dashing!” Sara said as Jen answered the phone.
“Oh do you, is he alien? Can you tell what does he look like?” Jen asked quickly.
“He has short black hair, and the only way you can really tell he is alien is by his extra ear lobe. Oh and his eyes are amazing. I have a picture I’ll send you a copy of it. Hold on a second.” Sara said. She sent the picture to Jen and waited for her f
riend to make a comment.
“Oh wow, he’s really nice looking.” Jen said. “So when is your date, what time? What are you going to do?” She asked Sara.
“It is at 8 pm and I am not sure what we will do. He’ll pick me up and I’ll see, I guess!” Sara said.
“I expect details later tonight, or tomorrow, if it goes really good!” Jen laughed loudly.
“I don’t want to seem cheap, so I’ll let you know the details tonight.” Sara said. She had never slept with any man on a first date. Maybe that was why she didn’t often have a second date lately. These guys all had one thing on their minds, and that was sex. Sara on the other hand would like to get to know the guy first. She hoped that Drex was different. She just realized she hadn’t told Jen the name of her date, so she sent a quick message to update her.
“Oh I was just so excited about the date! Well you and Drex have fun tonight!” Jen sent a voice message back to Sara.
The day seemed to fly by and she sat and waited for Drex to show up. The clock was right at 7:45, she had fifteen minutes and her nerves were worked up. Sara considered taking a nip of vodka to help curve her nerves. She picked up the bottle and poured a shot, and then added in a little extra. As the liquid ran down her throat she felt the burn of the alcohol. “Oh better.” She sighed as her nerves relaxed a little bit.
No more than 10 minutes later her doorbell rang. Sara went to the door and opened it. “Hello.” She said, and looked up to his face. He was a bit over a foot taller than her.
“Hi, I’m Drex. It’s nice to meet you Sara. I bought you this; I hope it doesn’t seem inappropriate.” He said and handed her a bottle of Gray Goose Vodka.
“Oh I love this stuff! Thank you, no I don’t think it’s inappropriate at all. Would you like a drink before we go?” She asked him.
“Well I really shouldn’t but maybe just a half a shot. I can hold my liquor. But your society is pretty strict on drinking and driving. I wouldn’t want to get into trouble on our first date!” He laughed.
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