“She really wore this on a giant movie screen?” I spun around and checked my reflection in Jason’s bathroom mirror. The skeptical expression on my face bled into my tone. “Fangia, a warrior princess wore a bikini-looking armor top, an armored mini-skirt, and thigh-high boots with a five-inch heel? How did she fight?”

“Very sexily.” Willis strode in behind me dressed in a metal breast-plate, matching helmet, and some sort of black tights with knee pads. A crimson cape draped behind him, and his face was painted a deep shade of blue.

“The horns are a nice touch.” I giggled.

“Let me see your fangs.”

I opened my mouth for him.

“Christ, you look way better than the Fangia from the movie.” He ran his hands down my bare waist.

“Don’t mess up the body paint.” I’d been sprayed with a white, iridescent layer.

“It’s dry.” His eyes roved me in the mirror, then he glanced behind him at Jason, who was sitting in a makeup chair and getting a ridge of bony spines attached to his forehead. “That’ll take a while.” He kicked the door shut behind him.

“What are you do—”

“Shh, Fangia. If Commander Reptilian finds out about our secret tryst, he will surely kick me out of the Vocknar Fleet.”

“You must be joking.”

“Would I look like this if I was joking?” He pointed to his blue face.

I snorted.

“Right, let’s get to it before the vampires attack and try to rescue you.” He ran his hands up my thighs and hooked his fingers in my thong.

I dropped my voice an octave, trying to sound more like the movie-version Fangia. “But ScaleyThorn, if the Commander finds out—”

“Let me worry about him. And it’s Lieutenant ScaleyThorn to you.” He slid his fingers along my folds and sank them inside me.

I bit my lip. “Oh, Lieutenant, the commander never touches me like that.”

“He doesn’t have the mating ability like I do, Fangia.” He pulled my wetness from me and spread it to my clit.

I turned around, and he scooted me onto the vanity. Spreading my legs, I grabbed the edges of his cape and pulled him to me. “Show this vampire how aliens deal with their enemies.”

“Ooooh, fuck, Fangia.” One corner of his mouth turned up into a smirk. “I intend to.”

I spread wider for him as he freed his cock and fed it into me inch by inch. “That’s perfect, Lieutenant.”

He pulled back and slid all the way inside, then started a quick rhythm, fucking me fast and dirty with the makeup artist and Jason right outside the door. The taboo thrill of being caught sent me spiraling higher and faster.

“Show me your tits.”

I smiled, my fangs teasing my bottom lip and pulled my top down.

Willis groaned and leaned down to suck one nipple into his mouth.

I gasped, and his hand squeezed my ass, pulling me past the edge of the vanity as he pistoned into me.

His teeth grazed my nipple, and everything deep inside me twisted tightly around the sensation I’d been chasing since the moment he first touched me.

He nibbled at my other nipple, then pulled back and licked his thumb. Pressing it to my clit, he swirled it around and around as he drove deep inside me.

“Willis—I mean, Lieutenant, I’m there.”

“So am I.” He thrust deeper as my hips stilled and my orgasm fell over me. Slapping a hand over my mouth, he gritted his teeth as he came.

I moaned my release into his palm and slowly relaxed. He peeled his hand away and dropped a kiss on my nose. “That was better than any fantasy I’ve ever had.”

“That’s what you are to me.” I smiled and gave him a fangy kiss.

He cleaned me up and helped me down. “Hmm, you’ll need a touchup around your lips. Otherwise, you’re none the worse for wear.” He wiped some blue off my chest.

I wiggled my skirt back down and pulled my panties into place. “You’re still blue.”

“Not anymore.” He waggled his eyebrows.

I laughed and opened the door.

Both Jason and the makeup artist stared at us.

“What?” I pranced out and sat next to Jason.

“Oh, nothing.” He swallowed hard. “But is it bad corporate form for me to hear my number one Shitake Shocker saleswoman fucking her boyfriend in my bathroom?”

“Oh. My. God.” The makeup artist stopped dabbing Jason’s nose. “You sell those? My boyfriend got me one. Changed my life.”

“Oh, that’s nothing.” I pointed at Willis. “That’s the former Scarlet Rocket. Now known as Willis Halloran.”

She turned to Willis, her eyes huge. “You are my guru! You’re the reason my boyfriend and I got together in the first place. I fought a bitch at the local bookstore for the last hardback copy of your book!”

“Well, I’m glad you won.” Willis sat next to me, his hand on my thigh.

She shook her head and returned to her work. “Best day ever.”

Once we were all touched up and ready to go, Willis escorted me to the car. Climbing in, I found Hannah and Elias already inside, both of them wearing vampire fangs and bizarre sci-fi clothing.

“I didn’t know you two were coming.”

Elias grinned and draped his arm around Hannah’s shoulders. “Wouldn’t miss it.”

The car shifted, and I looked around to find Willis on his knee.

My breath caught in my throat and my eyes widened. So many thoughts rampaged through my mind, but they coalesced into one thought, I love this man.

His hand shook as he held the ring out to me, but his voice was certain. “I know I’m a nerd and you’re a con, but I think we’re perfect together. Marry me?”

I stared at the ring in the box, the sun glinting off the facets. All that came out of me was a stuttered squeak.

Willis stared up at me, the love in his eyes telling me the truth—that he and I were meant for each other. Our true lives had dovetailed into each other while we’d been pretending to be different people. But he knew the true me, and I couldn’t contemplate another moment without the real him.

There was only one answer I could give.

“Yes.”