Tabby woke the next morning to find Oro gone. Damn. Just when she was beginning to like him. She sighed and flung herself out of the bed. There were hotel robes hanging on the wall, so she grabbed one and threw it around her shoulders. Hoping she might still find Oro, she pushed open the double doors that led to the living room. She looked around. He wasn’t in the living room or the kitchen. She walked out further and inspected the balcony, but he wasn’t there either.

Alone again. What was she supposed to do? It wasn’t like she’d gone through all this trouble to get mated with an alien just so she could sit around and watch TV all day. She was in a luxury resort, she might as well go get some sun and spend some time in the pool. She was sure the place had some decent restaurants and possibly other entertainment. She peered out the window onto the resort’s grounds. Was that a golf course she saw in the distance? A few rounds of golf might be fun. Not that she ever played before, but as long as she was here, she might as well try.

She showered and dressed and put on her new makeup. Looking cute and ready for a day of adventure on the resort, she went downstairs to the main floor.

There was a restaurant that opened out onto the patio through the lobby. She went and stood at the host’s podium and waited to be seated. The young man took her to the patio and asked her if she wanted anything to drink. She ordered a coffee and put her new designer sunglasses over her face. She sat under an umbrella, watching the gleaming blue colors of the pool dance in the sunlight.

The waiter brought her coffee and a plate, instructing her to where she could serve herself from the buffet. A buffet seemed nice; she would get a chance to try new things. She took the plate to the buffet and filled it with all the delicacies the resort had to offer. She went back to her table and began her breakfast. Soon, she realized she wasn’t that hungry and pushed the plate away.

She actually felt a little melancholy that Oro wasn’t there with her. She never would have expected to miss him like this. Sure, Tabby was a social girl, but she could spend half a day without company. She felt a palpable tug in her chest, every time she thought of him. She let out deep sigh and leaned back in her chair, crossing her arms. Well, this sucks. What use were feelings like these? It wasn’t helping her situation at all.

For one thing, Tabby was still on Earth and still sitting like a duck in a resort so close to Juan Norte’s territory. It wasn’t exactly a safe place for her to be. Then she thought about it for a moment. Until now, she hadn’t put the pieces together. Oro was on some mission to stop some big bad guy. That big bad guy had to be Juan Norte.

Oh crap.

She needed to get off the planet as fast as possible and away from people like Leo and Juan all together. Tabby wouldn’t be able to get to the armada herself. She’d need Oro to take her. Oro who she couldn’t get enough of. Oro who had left her alone, again.

Just when she was beginning to feel hopeless, he approached her, wearing human style clothing. It was a fitted designer suit that hugged his body in the most tantalizing ways. She didn’t think he could look hotter than he did in that skintight uniform. She was wrong. The dark blue suit brought out the darkness of his eyes and hair. He was the most imposing businessman imaginable.

“Nice outfit,” she said, looking over her sunglasses to get a better look.

“I’m incognito,” he said. “So I can spend time with you.”

“I think you stand out too much to be incognito as a human,” she said, giggling.

“My mission has already taken too long. We must leave the resort to regroup,” he said.

“All right. Are we going to the ship?”

“Not yet. We’re changing location. I’ve rented a house in the suburbs near here.”

“But…”

“We leave now. Your things are packed and already in the car.”

“Why don’t we go to the ship?” she asked. She wanted to get out of here. Oro’s mission was bad news, and she wasn’t ready to reveal that she had been involved with the people he was here to take out.

He gripped her arm and led her out of the restaurant and out the front doors of the resort.

“I need you near me.”

“Oh,” she gasped when he pushed her into the front seat of an SUV. It was old fashioned. The kind of thing suburban people drove before the Draconians came. There were still plenty of gas powered cars on the road. But most wealthy people had moved over to hover technology. He closed the door behind her, and she strapped herself in.

“I don’t think the outfit matches the car,” she said, as he sat in the driver’s seat.

“No?” he looked down at the arm of his suit.

“Too upscale.” He shrugged and his suit turned into a pair of khaki pants and a button down shirt. “Yeah. That.” She giggled. He looked like a seven-foot-tall soccer dad. “How did you do that?” she asked.

“We integrated a new program into our uniforms. We can change them to look and feel like human fashions with the right body gesture.”

“Wow. Sweet. I want one.”

He looked at her and started the car. Then he looked back out on the window, pulling onto the road. “Perhaps when we get to the ship,” he said.

They drove across town and into a neighborhood lined with cookie-cutter houses built before the great recession. Now, the only houses being built were for the mega-wealthy or the super poor. Even places like the resort were rare anymore.

Most people didn’t have a lot of extra money. Whole areas of many inner cities had been turned into wastelands of poverty and drug addiction. The Draconian technology had only compounded the problems humans already had.

The kind of people who lived in the suburbs were quickly falling out of existence. Not that Tabby had ever lived in a place like this. She’d grown up in a crappy little house in the projects along the Mexican border. Not the best place to live. Both her parents had succumbed to the draw of the techno-drugs, and she’d been with Leo ever since.

Until now.

Now she had Oro. This alien male she really didn’t know anything about. All she knew was that her heart hurt when he was gone, and he kept her close to him because he couldn’t stand to be away from her either. It almost didn’t matter that they could possibly have nothing in common. They had that driving desire between them.

Tabby followed Oro up the front path of the house. The front yard was all rock and cacti, typical Arizona landscaping. Oro shoved the key in the front door and turned it. She walked inside and found herself in the epitome of middle class living. There was a lowered living room with brown leather couches and a TV. Through the next doorway was the kitchen and down the carpeted hall from there were a few bedrooms. It was a comfortable house, but nothing like the luxury of the resort.

“It’s nice, I guess,” she said, walking into the living room.

“This is temporary.”

“It’s fine. What’s important is that we’re together,” she said. Was that what was important? When did this arrangement become about being in a relationship with the alien? She’d entered the lottery for the chance to get off this rotting rock and live in luxury.

“Yes. We are together. This house might not be the best of the best, but there is something special.”

She followed him down the hallway and through the master bedroom to the en suite. There was a deep jetted tub and new tile.

“I’d like to wash you,” he said in a low growl.

Tabby whimpered and turned to him, running her hand up his chest and the ridiculous shirt he was wearing.

“You need to take off this lame outfit. I liked the suit better.”

“I was thinking we’d get naked.” He flicked the base of his neck and was suddenly bare, his cock twitching upward.

“There’s no water in the tub yet.”

He knelt beside the tub and turned on the faucet. The high capacity jets pumped out water, filling the tub much quicker than she thought possible. He stood and looked down at her with his dark, mysterious eyes. He pushed the jacket off her shoulders and pulled her shirt up over her head. She stood in her bra and pants, the tub getting fuller by the second.

“I don’t know how to work these. Take them off,” he commanded, pulling at her bra straps.

Tabby slipped out of the rest of her things, and Oro squirted some kind of oil into the water. It smelled like lemons and lavender along with something musky. “What’s that?” she asked.

“Aphrodisiac,” he growled. “Get in.”

She stepped into the water, the warm liquid kissing her skin. Tabby sat on the bench, the top of the water covering her breasts. Oro stepped in after her, taking the deep step in one stride. He covered the distance between them, his eyes hooded and dark.

Oro poured the oil into the palm of his hand, not taking his eyes off her. The fragrance filled the air. He drizzled the oil over her chest and shoulders and then used the pool in his hands to massage her chest. Tabby lifted her body up out of the water, giving him better access to her tight breasts.

She bit her lip and watched him rub the oil over her body. His hands traveled downward, the oil still slick on his hands. He massaged it over her belly and hips and dipped his hands between her thighs. He gripped her hips and turned her around in the pool, tilting her over the edge.

Tabby felt the oil drip and pool in the small of her back. He swept fragrant liquid down over her ass, rubbing her slit. She groaned and looked back at him. His fingers rubbed up and down her pussy, making her already wet core slick and slippery.

Oro growled behind her and squeezed the globes of her ass in his big hands. He ran his thumbs up over her tender flesh, caressing his hands up her thighs. He used one thumb to rub circles over her clit, and the other pushed inside her opening.

She moaned loudly as he used his hands to fuck her. She could feel her orgasm already peaking. Oro gripped her hips and moved her backwards, pressing her arousal to his stiff cock. She looked back at him, resting her head against the cool tile. He had his hands on her hips and was using her pussy to rub up and down on his cock. He could so easily push inside her.

Tabby wanted to feel the wide head of his cock slip in. She reached back and pulled herself wider, willing him to push inside her. Oro groaned and held her more tightly.

“I’m ready,” she moaned, wanting him to take her now.

“Not yet, little human.” He held her hard and lifted her up and down as he rubbed her pussy on his cock.

She couldn’t protest any more. The pleasure was too much. Her mouth dropped open in a silent moan. The ridges of Oro’s cock ran over her clit, exciting her in a rush of lust. Her breasts bobbed over the warm water, splashing up and down.

She could feel him wide and thick against her. Her orgasm throbbed electrically, and pulsed against his shaft. He roared, his cock spurting semen on her behind. “Oh God,” she groaned. The hot drops of his semen slid over her skin. He pulled away. She could feel the semen drip over her pussy.

Oro pushed his come inside her, pumping it into her throbbing core with two fingers. When she couldn’t take it anymore, she turned around and slid to sitting on the bench. Oro looked down at her, showing his sharp teeth under his upper lip.

“Why did you hold back?” she asked. “I was ready,”

“Not yet. I won’t claim you yet. I won’t hurt you.”

“You’re being so careful, Oro. I want you.”

She slid forward in the water and ran her hands up his wet chest. He sank to his knees and took her in his arms, kissing her gently on the lips.

“I never thought I would feel like this.”

“I never imagined I would have a woman like you.”

They held each other in the warm water and Oro stroked her hair. She could feel his heartbeat under her cheek. His hard chest curved against her face.

“It’s so much better than I expected,” she whispered.