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Chapter One
“So why did you decideto visit Klurux, Brooke?” the pretty, young blonde woman asked me.
We’d met a couple of hours earlier when we’d got on this spaceship, and I’d started talking to her because she was the only other human woman on the ship. Well, the only one that I’d found, anyway. The spaceship was huge and there were so many aliens of different races that it was a little scary. I don’t know why I hadn’t thought it would be like that. I guess I’d been hoping it would just be a small spaceship for a bunch of human women who were all going to the same planet to find their mate. It wasn’t like that at all, though.
I sighed as I pondered how to respond. “All my friends have travelled the galaxy, and I got bored being the only one who hadn’t. While they were off exploring all the exciting and far-flung places, I was sitting behind my desk working on things I never cared about. It was time to change that, Callie.”
She looked thoughtful as she listened. “So you’re just here for the experience of travelling? You’re not interested in finding your mate?”
As I watched Callie, I noticed her cheeks turn a little pink, and I had to hide a grin. She was obviously here for the adventure of banging an alien. Not that I could judge her for it.
“Well, let’s just say, if I find my mate, I sure as hell don’t plan on fighting it,” I said to her with a smile. “But I just want to do something different. Something exciting.” I leaned towards her to whisper conspiratorially in her ear. “I am hoping some of that excitement will include a tall, blue and handsome alien, though.”
Callie giggled and nodded. “That would be fun,” she agreed.
When I’d seen the advertisements back home on Earth that the Klurians were looking for women to come to their planet to find their alien mates, I’d jumped at the chance. It was an all-expenses paid trip, after all. I would have been a fool to pass up on that!
And the pictures of the Klurian men had shown them all to be big, broad and gorgeous as sin. I was hoping that a majority of the men on Klurux actually looked like that, and they weren’t luring us in with false advertising. But even if that was the case, I would still be able to go home after having had the adventure I was searching for, even if I didn’t find a mate.
“So, why are you going to Klurux, Callie?” I asked, noticing that her face had turned an even deeper shade of red.
She shrugged her shoulders. “I’ve just never really met anyone special on Earth. All the human guys just seem kind of... you know?”
I nodded along, even though I wasn’t really sure what she’d meant. “Well, I hope you find your mate when we arrive. You deserve to find the man of your dreams, no matter what planet he comes from.”
Callie smiled brightly, and her pretty face lit up. “Thank you, Brooke.”
I reached out and gave Callie’s hand a gentle squeeze. If I had to guess, I’d say she was maybe three or four years younger than my twenty-six years, and she seemed very sweet and shy. I had a feeling the Klurian men were all going to be begging for her attention.
Her eyes got caught by something just over my shoulder, and I turned to see what she was looking at. My breath caught in my throat as I got my first glimpse of a Klurian man in the flesh; and if anything, the advertisements hadn’t done enough to show how good-looking they were.
“Oh wow,” I said, flashing Callie a grin. “They look even better than I’d hoped!”
“I know, right! And they are so tall!”
We sat quietly for a few minutes as we watched the two Klurian men working. They were wearing overalls with the spaceship’s emblem on it, so they obviously worked on the ship. One had short silver hair, while the other had silver hair that reached his shoulders, and their skin was a pale shade of blue. The horns on top of their head were maybe five inches long and slightly curved. Just right for holding onto, I thought to myself with a grin on my face.
The silver hair and blue skin was a trademark for the Klurian race, and I had to say, the effect was very pleasing to the eye.
They were talking to each other, although they were too far away for me to hear what they were saying, and going back and forth between pressing at a panel on the wall and checking a small hand-held device that the one with long hair was holding.
I had a brief moment of panic, wondering if there was some kind of problem with the spaceship. But when one of them started laughing, I told myself to relax. There was no way they’d be laughing if there was a serious issue. It was probably just routine maintenance or something.
The two Klurian men turned away from the panel on the wall and began walking away from where they had been working. They moved with an assured confidence that was attractive all on its own, making their way quickly through the large hall area we were in.
But suddenly, they slowed down as something captured their gaze. They seemed to be looking over at us, and I had no doubt at all it was Callie who had caught their eye. She was the younger and prettier one, after all.
“Oh my god,” Callie squealed as they changed direction and began walking directly over to us.
When the two Klurian men reached us, I had to tilt my head back to look up at their faces. They were at least seven feet, probably a little taller than that even, and at five three, they towered over me.
“Hi,” the man with long hair said, looking down at me with a playful smile on his lips. “I’m Zarek, and this is my friend, Riven.”
Even though they were talking in their own language, I could understand them easily thanks to the translation device that had been implanted into my brain just a few days before leaving Earth. And I was able to respond easily enough in the same language they’d used, although the words felt strange on my tongue.
“I’m Brooke, and this is Callie,” I told them. “We’re from Earth.”
Riven chuckled loudly. “Yes, that is quite obvious. We’ve met several human women over the last few months while working on these kinds of spaceships.”
