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body finally stood up and noticed she was all female and there was a male it would like to climb, that man had to be Rylan. Maybe it was just that sexy darkness that made her legs squish with wetness when she woke. How many pairs of panties could she ruin in one day?
    “Mom?” Mckayla extended her small hand.
    “I’m here, Baby, I was just thinking.” Aviana turned around in the seat and took her hand squeezing it. Mckayla leaned her head against her mother’s hand and smiled.
    “I was thinking, too.” Mckayla’s eyes twinkled making Aviana feel lighter.
    “I get nervous when you start a sentence like that, Baby doll. Tell me what’s on your mind.”
    “If I had a daddy, that would mean you had a husband, and he would protect us.”
    She had seen the look of longing in Mckayla’s eyes when she watched Victor with Vick. Mckayla wanted a father too—someone who would pick her up and throw her to the heavens and catch her when she came back down. Her baby wanted the one thing she couldn’t give her.
    Unbidden, a picture of Rylan came to mind. He was opening her Christmas present. The look of utter shock and complete joy on his face when he took it out enraptured her. She would never forget that look or the longing she felt in that minute to walk up to him and lay a possessive kiss on his lips.
    “I can’t just approach a stranger and ask him to be my husband and your father.”
    “Uncle Rylan isn’t a stranger.” He and the rest of the males in the family had given Mckayla permission to call them uncle before they proceeded to tell her she was now family and they would always protect her.
    Aviana’s eyes misted but she blinked them rapidly staving off the tears. She would be strong for both Mckayla and herself.
    Selma tried to keep her smile hidden as she pulled up in front of the bed and breakfast. Mckayla unbuckled her seat belt and jumped out the car with Vick running into the large house. Laughter was in the air.
    Aviana was slower to exit the car. Her life was about to change and she wasn’t sure she was ready for what would happen when it did. Aliens, or whatever that thing was, were real. She sighed and shook her head. Of course they were; she was living in a house with a family of them.
    It was just a thought. She knew Selma and Victor were aliens as well as the rest of them, but they treated her and Mckayla well.
    “Selma, can I ask you a question? I don’t want to be rude or offensive but I don’t really want to ask Rylan.” Selma had lingered in the car with her.
    Selma laughed, the tinkling filling the car with mirth. “Ask whatever you want, that’s why I am here.”
    “What planet are you from?”
    Selma’s laughter became more infectious as tears rolled from her eyes. “I’m from Earth.”
    “No I mean before you got here.”
    “Aviana. I’m just as human as you are.”
    “Don’t play, Selma. That’s not funny.”
    “Paige didn’t take it well either,” Selma told her. “I’m human, just more advanced, able to do things other humans can’t. There’s a lot of us out there. You’re one of us. I think of us as others. Maybe not the most accurate term but at least it’s something I can wrap my head around.”
    “Rylan?”
    “He’s definitely alien. I will let him tell you his story.”
    “The Sudir,” her tongue tripped over the unfamiliar word. “How do I kill it?”
    “Killing a Sudir takes time and patience. I killed one once. It took me half a century. They both want me and hate me because of my strength.”
    Aviana laughed this time. “Run that past me again because you don’t look older than twenty-nine, and I am pushing the age up because you have Vick.”
    “Your eyes can deceive you. I assure you I am much older than that. I’ve been around a long time. Can you really say you don’t know you’re different?”
    Images of Mckayla in a crib at one of their many apartments flashed before her eyes. Something ugly reaching for her when she ran into the room