Meredith always dreamed of being whisked off her feet by a prince—she just didn’t realize he’d be a blue-scaled alien warrior.

Working a dead-end job in a chocolate shop, Meredith Sinclair has all but buried her dreams of finding happiness. But when a bland-looking man comes into the shop and starts asking her suspicious questions, the most ridiculous thing happens—he turns into a horned, seven-foot tall alien before her very eyes.

Sent on an expedition to determine the intelligence of the human species, Lord Kyrix Yio’naeus doesn’t expect his cloaking device to break down on his first mission. When a human sees his true form, he has no choice but to take her back to his ship. But at the touch of her soft skin, his blood ignites like it has with no other female. 

When the Herkleian government orders Meredith transferred to a lab for study, Kyrix will do anything to save her. Is it possible a human could be the fated mate to an alien royal? And even if she is, will Meredith and Kyrix be able to escape his crew for a future together?

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“What the fuck?” Meredith yelled, staring at the same blue-scaled alien she’d seen in her dream. This had to be a dream. She had binged almost every sci-fi show on Netflix. It made sense her imagination conjured up hot, horned aliens who fit her fantasies to a tee. How could this be real life? Why would an alien visit her work?

Meredith shook her head firmly. This was not real. 

Then she glanced to the right at another freaking shirtless alien. He looked a few years older, with bright red hair under his shorter horns. “What in the absolute shit?”

“Human,” the new alien started.

Meredith scrambled off the table. A freaking floating table. The surrounding room looked straight out of a sci-fi show, if a low budget one at that. It was barely bigger than Cocoa Love. She stumbled into mad-scientist shelves filled with weird devices and vials of colorful liquid. She grabbed one of each in her hands. “What is this? Am I going to be probed? I am so not getting probed!”

When Meredith raised the vial over her head, the purple-haired man—male?—stepped forward. “Female, please—”

She glared at him. “Don’t call me that. What gives you the right to show up and turn my life upside down? Did you just decide, oh, this human seems irrelevant in her shitty minimum-wage job, let me go ahead and kidnap her?!”

“I apologize.” The male bowed. Legitimately bowed. “I never intended to take you, but when my cloaking device failed, I had to bring you to the ship.”

Meredith switched between the vial and the thingamabob in her other hand. The device looked more threatening and she gripped it harder. “What are you going to do? Hold me hostage and do weird alien experiments?”

The alien’s forehead crinkled. Confused, maybe? Did aliens have the same facial expressions? Meredith didn’t know. She hadn’t even believed in aliens a few hours ago. 

“No one will lay a finger on you,” he answered, his deep voice oddly calming. “Once your memory of the incident has faded, we’ll return you to your home immediately. I guarantee you’ll remain safe.”

“So, no probing?”

His forehead creases deepened. Definitely confusion, but he answered, “No probing.” 

“How long are you going to hold me?” Meredith had left the store unattended, but she didn’t care if it got looted. Served her boss right.

“We should have you back within an hour. We have no desire to hurt you. Our mission here is strictly to observe your planet.”

“Alright.” Meredith dropped the thingamabob. The red-haired alien cringed. Was he the ship’s doctor? “Sorry. Hope that wasn’t expensive.”

“There are three of its kind in existence at the moment.”

“Oh shit, I’m sorry.” Meredith grabbed the device and thrust it into the doctor’s hands. “Did I break the most valuable weapon in the universe or something?”

“Valuable in the medical community, yes. It’s the smallest body scanner used to assess internal damage.”

Meredith wasn’t sure if she should feel bad or not. They had kidnapped her after all. Maybe it served them right to have their things broken. She shrugged. “Let’s get this show on the road. Give me your magic memory potion.”

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