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“Your stomach says what your tongue does not. It is more honest than you are.”
There was something golden retriever-esque about this guy. Something playful and unflappable and frankly, kind of goofy.
“This is true. You are not my mate.” He pressed the sunglasses into my hands but kept my gaze pinned with his. “Yet.”
If Melanie weren’t one of my closest friends on this planet, her perceptiveness and questions would have made me wanna cut a bitch. But she was my friend, and I knew she meant well.
Melanie had similar little rocks in the soft bottom part of her ears, but Kat had many more in her ears, and even rocks in her nose and her brow. I wonder what it means... Probably a sign of prowess among her people.
“Why not? Does your human anatomy in that area stop working in the presence of an attractive, virile, mate-worthy male?”
My dude. I wonder what it means. I hoped it was a term of endearment, but knowing the woman saying the words, I doubted it.
I tried not to be discouraged at Kat’s rejection of my heart.
No. I will find other ways, other reasons, to be near her. I would bring her fresh meat every day and offer to massage her every night. Even if she refused, every time.
At the sound of his name, the tall warrior looked up over the top of the tent he was finishing erecting. I gave him the finger, and he jauntily did the same to me, not understanding what the gesture meant. I couldn’t stop myself from laughing.
“I will never ask anything of you that you do not want to give. Though I may say things in jest, and make joking demands of you, you should know that I am serious about you, Kat.”
“That you will accept me. It may not be today. Or tomorrow. It may be many ages from now. We may be old and decrepit by then. But someday, somehow, I will make you feel for me what I feel for you. I will win your guarded little human heart. And that, tiny Kat, is my vow to you. And you should know, I never break a vow once uttered.”
He was totally fucking unflappable. And here I was, flapped to the high heavens.
She is a collection of unspoken words. I must learn to read her body the way I’d understand someone else’s voice.
I thought about that for myself. Reluctantly, I pictured a life with Galok, Sharing a tent, enduring his sass for a lifetime. My cheeks heated, and I decided it wasn’t a totally horrible image. I mean, I guessed. Sort of. Or something. Ugh.
What would it be like to have Kat in my bed? It would be like sharing my bed with an angry beast of the sands, I was sure. But a small one, with blunt claws and tiny teeth and very loud growls.
“I should be the one asking you if you’re OK. Where I’m from, I’m known for throwing one mean punch.” Galok looked at me blankly for a moment, then collapsed to the ground. “Oh, send for the healers! Please! The mighty Kat has felled me with one of her tiny, beautiful fists.”
“I take responsibility for your happiness, tiny one. But I will accept your hate, too, if that is what you offer. I will take it all. Whatever you have to give. I am ravenous for you, every facet. Every feeling.”
“Alright, weirdo,” she muttered, that last word coming out in her language. It probably meant something along the lines of powerful warrior. Or maybe, my future mate. One could hope, at least.
her eyes huge behind her glasses, her black braids shining under the ship’s lights.
Irkdu lizard alien guy is looking for a dark girl with glasses and braids - ZOEY AINT DEAD
And just how, exactly, did one ask an alien out on a date, anyway?
A few days ago, he was the annoying guy I’d rejected over and over again. And now? Well, he was still kind of annoying. But like... in an endearing sort of way.
“What does creeper mean? Bringer of great pleasure? Adored one? Mighty warrior?”
In here or out there, anywhere, I was hers.
Kat did a strange gesture – poking the tips of two fingers towards her own eyes, then pointing them towards me aggressively, before slipping into the tent with Zoey. I had no idea what that was supposed to mean. Probably something like, I am blinded by my adoration for you, my mate.
