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is marriage.”
    “Marriage?  I didn’t marry you.  We didn’t elope or anything !”
    “This paper says you’re married to me.” He tapped the piece of paper in her hands.
    She read the paper.  “Anyone could have made this up.  It doesn’t prove anything.” Even as she said it, in her gut, she had a feeling he was telling her the truth.   Why she felt that, she wasn’t sure.
    “I know it must sound crazy.”
    She nodded.  Crazy.  Looney.  Nightmarish.  There were so many words to describe how this sounded!
    “Don’t you feel it?” he softly asked, hi s tone dragging her attention from the paper and back to him.  “The connection.  We’re linked.  You don’t feel it?”
    She felt unusually close to him, as if they belonged together, and that wasn’t normal.  A woman didn’t have sex with a stranger and feel as if no one else would ever take his place.  Guilt.  Regret.  Fear.  Those were things a woman might feel.  But she didn’t feel those things with him.  Even if she couldn’t believe it and thought it was a bad dream, there was the gut level of peace about it.  She shook her head, not wanting to admit any of this was really happening.
    Her cell phone beeped. Sighing, she leaned forward, reached for her purse , and took it out.  It was her boss.  She answered it.  “What’s up, Jack?”
    “ Why didn’t you tell me you got married?”
    She almost dropped her phone .  “What?”
    “ When I logged into the computer just now, I saw that you’re now Caitlyn West .  I sign your paycheck, and that paycheck won’t clear if it’s not in the right name.  So I need you to come back and get your new check.”
    “Bu t…” She glanced at Chris West—who according to the sheet of paper in her hand— was also known as Rilo An.   She had sex with him and she was magically married to him?
    “Caitlyn,” her boss interrupted her, “no arguments.  I need to balance my books tonigh t, and I won’t have this mess on my records.”
    “Ok ay, I’ll be there.” She hung up t he phone and looked at the very contented man sitting next to her.   “You’re happy about this.”
    “Yes.  There are no females on my world .  You are my life mate.”
    She rubbed her eyes.  “Please tell me you’re not a psychotic killer.”
    He laughed.  “A what?”
    “Never mind.  I better get my new paycheck.  I can’t pay the rent without it.” She put on her panties and opened the door so she could get out of the mini van.  “You might as well get back up front,” she told him when she noticed he just sat there with a goofy grin on his face.
    He retrieved his shirt, shrugged into it, and did as she said.
    The drive to the diner was one of the most awkward moments she ever experienced.  What, exactly, was a woman suppose d to say to a man—an alien?— she’d been intimate with?  She glanced at him and noted the interest he took in his surroundings.  Was he really from another world or did he escape from the mental ward of a hospital?
    She parked the vehicle.  “Stay here.”
    “You’ll be coming back?”
    “Well, it is my car.” Even in this overwhelming situation, she couldn’t help but make the joke.
    He nodded, seeming just as serious as when he’d been in the diner.
    She grabbed her purse and keys—just in case he was a psycho or a thief who went around having sex with women so he could steal their cars—and went into the restaurant.   Sandy and Sheil a, the third waitress who had just reported for work, ran over to Caitlyn before she made it to the kitchen where Jack flipped burgers.
    “Wh o’s the cutie in the van ?” Sandy asked, looking as if she was ready to receive a tasty morsel of gossip.
    Caitlyn groaned.  “I hoped you didn’t notice.”
    “How could I not notice?  You left with him and made out in the parking lot before you peeled out of here.”
    Caitlyn’s cheeks warmed.  “Made out with him ?”
    “That sex must have been hot,” Sheila