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“I have a serious problem here,” I said. “I need you to focus and help me out.”
Zyod grumbled and threw up his hands.
“All right, all right,” he said. “I’m here, aren’t I? Now, where were we?”
“Finding a girl to marry me,” I said.
“No, not marry you. Get engaged to you. That’ll show your mom you’re serious about changing and settling down. At the very least, it’ll buy you some time.”
He had a point. I was never going to find a girl to fall in love with me within the next thirty days. Why did I even agree to it?
Oh yeah. Because I didn’t have a choice.
Maybe things were different back in Mom’s day but these days… To be honest, I didn’t really know. After all, it wasn’t like I actively went out of my way to look for girls who wanted to settle down. With the kind of parties I went to, it was safe to say I probably went out of my way to avoid them.
But it wouldn’t be so hard to find a girl like that, would it? I mean, there had to be lots of them. It wouldn’t be like they were doing it for nothing. I would strike a deal. She’d give me a good cover story, something believable my mom would buy, and once I got my inheritance, I could pay her for her time.
I felt confident I could find her in a city as big as Baok.
“And she can’t be a Titan,” Zyod said offhandedly.
This was news to me.
“What?” I said. “Why not?”
“Your mom is a smart lady. She knows what you’re like. And she’s the head of a wealthy family. She’ll use all the contacts at her disposal to research your future partner. She’ll make sure you’re not trying to pull a fast one.”
“You think she would do that?”
Zyod shrugged.
“It’s what I would do,” he said.
Crap.
He was right.
My confidence reversed polarity and now I was staring down the business end of a blaster pistol.
“I’m going to lose everything!” I said. “It’s all going to be taken away from me!”
“It will with that attitude,” Zyod said. “Look on the bright side. You get to start at the bottom the way your old man did. The big wigs always say the most fun part of their careers was the beginning.”
I could have cried.
“You’re not helping,” I said. “If you’re right, then it’s not only Titans I should be cautious about dating. It shouldn’t be any of the species our business has close ties with.”
“That follows. But with how good business is these days, I think you’re going to have to avoid the entire inner quadrant.”
“You’re saying I have to find someone from an undeveloped planet?” I said. “A backward species? I’m not sure Mom would approve of that.”
“It wouldn’t matter so long as she was educated to perform well.”
“You mean, give her lessons on how she’s supposed to act?” I said.
My task had just got a whole lot harder. I could feel my headache returning.
“Here’s an idea,” I said. “It could be someone I’ve dated before. One of the higher-class girls. She’ll know everything she needs and I won’t have to educate her.”
