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touched her damp hair. She’d tried her hand at
    being a redhead the previous year when she’d worked at
    the hospital where they’d met. Now she was back to her
    normal color, a honey blonde. “This is the real me. I
    decided I didn’t want to dye it red anymore.”
    “Open up the door and talk to me.” He growled the
    order.
    “Why? So you can insult me more? Be a bigger ass?”
    Trisha tensed when only silence answered her
    question. Would he try to get inside her house another
    way? Why would he even care if she were the same
    woman he’d accosted a year before? She listened but
    didn’t hear a thing on the other side of the door.
    “Mr. Slade?”
    He didn’t answer. Trisha finally moved from the
    door to rush around the house to make sure all the
    windows were locked. She relaxed certain that he had
    gone, and didn’t plan to bother her. She entered her
    bedroom and clicked off the light. She slept wearing
    sweats just in case he returned and decided to surprise
    her with another unannounced visit.
    * * * * *
    Slade pressed his forehead against the door, his eyes
    closed, and listened to the doctor move away. Shock still
    gripped him that the woman he’d just insulted and
    angered was the same woman who haunted him on a
    nightly basis since he’d been freed.
    Dr. Trisha Norbit had changed her hair color, had
    grown it longer. He’d been pretty drugged when he’d
    awoken inside the human hospital but he should have
    recognized her scent or placed those beautiful blue eyes
    of hers when he’d seen them again. The memory of them
    made him want to kick his own ass for not making the
    connection. Had their drugs really affected him that
    badly?
    In his defense, he’d never learned the name of the
    woman he’d pinned under him on the small hospital bed
    but everything else about her remained intact. Her plush
    body pinned under his, the taste of her skin on this
    tongue, and the scent of her arousal tormenting him.
    He’d been sure no one would save her, that she’d be his
    for the taking, and he’d relished the idea of making her
    want him as much as he wanted her. Then it had turned
    to hell. Humans had rushed inside the room, drugged
    him, and taken her away.
    He bit back a snarl. He’d royally screwed up. Late in
    the night before he drifted to sleep, he always thought of
    her, his sexy redhead. He pushed away from the cool
    wood, snapped open his eyes, and glared at the house
    she hid inside. He’d fantasized about finding her, getting
    her under him again, and finishing what they’d started.
    He’d planned out how he’d charm her, had studied
    human romantic tactics, in hopes of winning her over if
    that day ever came.
    Dr. Trisha Norbit hated him. He couldn’t blame her
    either. He’d purposely been an ass to her for the most
    part. It had irritated him that he was drawn to her despite
    having a fantasy woman stuck inside his head. It had
    almost seemed as if he’d been cheating on the memory of
    his redheaded fantasy woman every time his body
    responded to Doc Norbit.
    The cosmic joke was on him since they were one and
    the same. He stomped off into the darkness. He’d just
    lost all hope of ever having her in his bed.
    He paused to glance back at her house. His anger
    faded into sadness. Fantasies are for fools. Learn a lesson and
    stay the hell away from her.

Chapter Two
    Tense. That’s how Trisha would describe her new
    relationship with the NSO officer. Slade patrolled the
    human section of Homeland, the area she lived and
    worked in, and she had to deal with him. Since that night
    they’d hardly spoken. When they did, both of them
    seemed to come to the mutual agreement not to mention
    anything personal. Two months had passed that way.
    The guy was likable but she wished he weren’t.
    Slade had a quick smile, a keen sense of humor, and
    every time she’d had to deal with him, he’d gotten her to
    smile. He’d made certain they were never alone since the
    night she’d told him