When She Wishes Quotes

“Bodhrri traces a circle on my belly, and the sound of him purring fills the air. "I'm horny all the time," I blurt out. Fuck it. I'm already pregnant with a billion babies on an alien planet. I'm not sure the universe has much more to throw at me. What's the worst that can happen? "So...there's that." "I would like to help you with that, Payton." He leans in, and his purring grows deeper. "In fact, I would be honored...”
― Ruby Dixon, When She Wishes

“Iam glad she allows me to use her shower. She is trusting and kind, my Payton. Which is good, because it means I get the opportunity to mark the lavatory area. I marked the front door days ago. Soon, I will mark the bedroom, and then it will be well established that Payton is claimed and no one will ever think to touch her...because she belongs to me. While I do need a shower, it is not the most pressing thing on my mind. Instead, it is declaring Payton and our children as mine. I undress and step into the shower cubicle and then take myself in hand, stroking with rough, practiced drags over my cock. I picture Payton as I come, my hand pressed to the tile as I spray my seed and my scent all over the walls. I do this twice more, hitting different spots each time, before I get down to the business of getting clean. I scrub my skin, noting that the bath soaps smell like her—floral and sweet—and for once, I like the scented cleaners because it means I can carry her smell with me as I go about my day.”
― Ruby Dixon, When She Wishes

“When I got to Risda, I thought all my problems had been solved. Here I'd be safe from slavers, surrounded by other humans, and someone was even giving me a farm to boot. Not that I knew anything about farming, but I figured I'd learn by experience. Once I got the deed to my farm, I went to the cantina in Port to celebrate. I might have had a few too many alien beers and when I woke up, I was naked in a field, curled around an equally drunk cat-alien stranger that I'd been chatting with at the bar. I chalked it up to a celebratory drunken hook-up and didn't think anything of it... Until I got violently ill in the mornings. Went to the medic here in Port, found out I was pregnant. Not just pregnant. Pregnant with triplets. At age thirty-six.”
― Ruby Dixon, When She Wishes

“As I approach the door, my nostrils flare and my whiskers twitch as I try to pick up other scents. I smell a female. Just a female. Human. There's no scent mark on the door that would claim her as someone's mate. Mesakkah don't mark a home (which I find bizarre and insulting to their females), but it's more likely that she's alone. I knock on the door.  "Coming," calls a female in a human dialect. My translator automatically interprets it for me, but after almost a year of working on this planet, I've grown used to the slight pause as my brain registers the translation.  So I wait at the door. And wait. It seems to take the female a very long time to come to the door, to the point that I wonder if she's not coming at all. But then the door opens and as it does, the wafting, delicate, tempting scent of my dreams comes over me. I stare at the tiny blonde female I've dreamed about for months now. She holds a pile of laundry in her arms, so big it practically dwarfs her, but it's the same woman from that night in the cantina. A little more tired and drawn, a little disheveled, but it's her. I'd know that keffing scent anywhere. She stares back at me, her eyes wide. "Oh my god, it's you.”
― Ruby Dixon, When She Wishes

“I squint up at the sky, but it's endlessly blue with a few puffy clouds drifting overhead. No stars. Damn. I really wanted to see the stars one last time. They always make me think of that woman and that one night. The human woman who told me all about stars and wishing. Never saw her again, but I think about her all the time. Wherever she is, I hope she's happy. I hope she loves this planet every bit as much as I do.”
― Ruby Dixon, When She Wishes