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She bit her lip and looked down at the floor for a moment before looking up.
“Do you think you can help me with something else as well?” she asked.
“I will help you achieve anything you desire,” I replied. “I am the tail that will lift your dreams up into the sky.”
The smile that spread across her face was slow and powerful, the corner of her eyes crinkling as her eyes shimmered in response to my words.
“I’m going to send you some medical details for a treatment my doctor recommended,” she said. “If you can look them over while I’m going to get my stuff, maybe we can talk about them and you can help me come up with a plan to put them in action?”
“Yes,” I replied. “I will.”
[ 16 ]
JESSICA
Getting my stuff was a breeze when I looked like somebody else.
No one bothered me when I punched in my code and made it through the gate leading to my apartment complex. My front door shut behind me and I let out a sigh, all the tension I had built up in my body releasing for a brief moment as the silence of my apartment greeted me.
I walked across the linoleum floor of my apartment, heading straight for the closet to grab my old duffle bag. Light streamed through a crack in my blackout curtains, the sliver of light illuminating my already glowing desk. I had two huge curved monitors that made almost a semi circle around the edges of my desk. My pink headset with cat ears rested on its mount, and my keyboard glowed with a shifting rainbow of backlit light that rippled across the keys.
I smiled at the little piece of cloth I had draped over my webcam.
Even though it was unlikely, I didn’t have any delusions about how secure technology was in any aspect of it, so I didn’t feel like taking any risks when it came to some rando hacking my equipment and spying on me. I used a good old material method of covering my webcam when it wasn’t in use.
I used my rig primarily to edit videos for my social media accounts.
Unzipping the bag, I started packing.
I wasn’t entirely sure what I would need to honeymoon on the moon, so I packed a variety of different options. I grabbed a silky white negligee that no one else had ever seen and dropped it in my bag.
Just thinking about wearing that for my new husband sent electricity through me.
It was incredible how attracted to him I was.
I barely knew him, yet everything he said and did so far pulled me in, with the sole exception of him insisting on an immediate sexual relationship… but even that was kind of hot in an aggressive male telling me he can’t handle being around me kind of way.
I picked up a soft cashmere throw from the plush sofa, folding it carefully before placing it in the top of the bag. I went into my bedroom and took a couple of my favorite books off my beautiful bookshelf. I loved that bookshelf. As soon as I had the extra money for it, I began filling up shelves with gorgeous hardback covers of my favorites.
I grinned as I picked up a romance book about a woman falling in love with a half snake half man and tucked it in the top before zipping up the bag.
I wandered into the kitchen and grabbed a chocolate bar from the pantry as well as a few other snacks and slipped them into the side pocket of the bag.
I took a last look around my apartment, feeling the weight of this moment.
This was a point of transition in my life, just like getting the apartment in the first place had been. When I had gotten the gig in the soap opera and had finally been able to afford this place in this part of town, it had felt like I was finally succeeding, that everything I had worked for was falling into place and that life would be easy from then on.
I had hesitated, second guessing myself on the price, knowing that if I stayed somewhere cheaper that I could save up more and possibly buy a house some day… but this place was pretty close to the studio and it had a serious gate. It was in a safe part of town, if any part of a city could be considered safe, and it was all mine. I could get a roommate, but I didn’t have to.
I had this place all to myself.
I always thought that maybe I would share it with someone I really loved, but I hadn’t ever let any of my previous boyfriends move in. I loved having it all to myself.
I wasn’t alone anymore.
I’d made a rash decision and gotten married to an alien.
I thought about the sensation of his strong tail curling around me, his soft skin sliding against my skin, how he had wrapped himself around me and my whole body flushed with the memory.
