Page 18 of Magic and Mayhem

“I’m hoping the sheriff will tell her to stay home for a while, but she seems stubborn.” However, since that described half the fucking town, I wasn’t surprised when the librarian laughed again. “Yep. Alright, I will let you get back to work.”

Because I had a date with an alien.

I headed out after making polite goodbyes and dropping a hint that I had a date so he wouldn’t think I was hitting on him. I hadn’t gotten that kind of vibe from him, but he was so shy I wasn’t going to count on being able to read him well enough.

And I didn’t want anything to fuck things up with Kenzie, whether he shared his toys well or not.

Laughing as I climbed in my car, I ignored the odd looks I got and started for my place. Thankfully it was close, but gossip traveled faster than I did.

The nosy lady who was probably a thousand and lived in the cottage beside mine was waiting for me at the little gate that led up to her front door. She wasn’t the sparkly kind of alien. She was more into botany and science. I hadn’t figured out what kind of alien that made her, but I was proud of myself for finally having figured out there were at least different types.

“Deputy Winslow.” She nodded but it was definitely awe have to talklook, so I detoured over toward the front of her house. “I heard you have a date tonight.”

Right to business, huh?

“Yes, ma’am. I’m taking Kenzie McMillan out to dinner tonight.” I’d never been in a situation like this, so I was struggling to decide what to say. “The sheriff approved. He mentioned how talented Kenzie is, and I have to agree. I saw his workshop earlier.”

Bingo.

“Kenzie is a nice boy.” She started nodding as soon as the sheriff was mentioned, so I was starting to wonder if he had alien authority and not just the human kind. “He’s easily distracted, but he means well. I taught him history in middle school, you know.”

What kind of history?

Did they have alien textbooks?

Wondering when I’d get a copy of that, I nodded. “I don’t mind. Creative people are like that sometimes.”

I was boring enough on my own…I didn’t need my partner to be just like me.

“Creative.” She gave a creaky giggle that had me trying not to frown at her. “Yes, he’s creative.”

She must’ve thought I was stupid, but I played the dumb human and nodded. “Yes, I can’t wait to see what else he’s been working on.”

And what his other form looked like.

Aliens couldn’t look completely like us, and sparkly eyes notwithstanding, they looked too human. So that meant human suits or surgery or some kind of technology that changed their physical forms.

Fuck. I should’ve taken more science in college…or maybe watched moreStar Trek.

“I’m sure you’ll be surprised.” Then the old biddy shook her head and laughed again as she turned around and headed back toward her house. “Very surprised.”

Bullshit.

I’d been doing my research and I wasn’t so shallow that I couldn’t date a Gray or something with tentacles. I was kind of hoping that wanting to just have sex in his human form wouldn’t make me speciesist, but I figured we could take that one step at a time.

We already had a lot on our plate with just getting to know each other and making sure we were compatible in a Daddy and little way. Everything else could take a back seat to that because it seemed like I had a couple of dates before I could be told there were aliens.

Three fucking dates.

Ridiculous.

I should have to be close to fucking married before I got told that kind of secret and I hoped they’d done a thorough background check on me. Fucking idiots probably thought just hiring me was good enough, but that was bullshit right there.

Damn it.

Now I really had practical reasons for needing a computer.

Somone had to be able to do the more extensive background checks it’d take to know if a human could be trusted. The sheriff just seemed to use a company down in Raleigh to do the employment contracts but that couldn’t be extensive enough.

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