Caid_Dakonian by Cara Bristol

Author:Cara Bristol [Bristol, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cara Bristol
Published: 2018-11-08T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Caid

Seated in the restaurant, I kept my back to the bar and my eye on the door. I hoped this wasn’t another date. In all my past encounters with females, I’d been given a name beforehand. This morning, I’d received an email from the Intergalactic Dating Agency requesting a meeting at this restaurant to discuss my experience. They hadn’t said it was a date, but I couldn’t help feeling wary. I couldn’t imagine who would want to speak to me if it wasn’t about a date. Jessie wasn’t talking to me. Unless…maybe her boss wished to evaluate her performance? Jessie had worried she might lose her job. It reasoned her boss from the agency might interview me about the service she had provided. If I was meeting Jessie’s boss, I might discover a way around the anti-fraternization rule.

If asked about my dating experiences, I would lie and report I was satisfied to avoid getting Jessie in trouble. She had done an excellent job in finding females. It wasn’t her fault I’d dismissed all the choices. I half regretted joining the Intergalactic Dating Agency, but if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have met my female. Her refusal to acknowledge me didn’t alter the facts.

My phone rang, and I answered it. “Hello?”

“Hi. It’s…Jessie.”

My pulse raced, and my horns swelled at the sound of her voice.

“I’m calling to um, thank you for the beautiful flowers. Nobody’s ever done that before. They filled up my entire office.”

Success! The flowers had gotten Jessie to contact me. Darak had been right; females did favor plants. “I’m glad you liked them. The colors reminded me of you.”

“They did?”

“Orange for your hair, blue for your eyes, and pink for your face when you object to something I’ve said.”

There was a moment of silence before she sighed. “I guess I do that a lot. I’m sorry I got so mad, wouldn’t talk to you, and called security on you.”

“I don’t know what angered you.”

“You chose Evie.”

“You told me to! You insisted I pick somebody.”

“You did it right after we kissed.” She hesitated. “You don’t like her, do you?”

“No.”

“Well, good…because I can’t find her anywhere in the IDA system.”

“She was the bartender at the mixer.”

“You were supposed to choose one of the IDA women, not the bartender!” She sounded amused and exasperated. “Why did you name her?”

“Because I didn’t want anybody but you. I thought if I picked an outsider, I could go on inactive status, then I wouldn’t be a client, and you could date me.”

“So there was a method to your madness,” she said.

I didn’t understand her meaning. Was she calling me crazy? Sometimes I felt like it. Sometimes she drove me crazy. “I only want you, Jessie.”

“Yeah, well, about that. That’s why I’m calling. The system found a new woman for you. A 100 percent match. This has only happened one other time in all the years I’ve been with the IDA—”

“No!” I leaped to my feet, knocking over my chair. If she’d knifed me in the chest, the pain couldn’t have been greater.

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