This time she heard some noises from upstairs. Footsteps thumped down to the living room. When he picked up the phone she couldn't quite make what he ...as saying. He came into the kitchen, still on the phone. He opened another bottle of vodka and took a long pull. "You been out there esse?" He paused and listened while he took another swallow. "Then you know what I'm talking about. I got the stuff you wanted, I picked up something for me to. Here, take a look." He pointed his phone at her, it. ”I was still sitting there stewing when my friend Amanda came over for coffee. She asked what was wrong, and I told her what I had discovered.“Girl, you need to forget that asshole.”“I can see that I am not enough for him, his love is worthless, and so I need to forget him. The hard thing to do is convince my heart.” I poured us another cup of coffee and set there pondering the situation. “You know what I just had an idea! If I had enough money, I’d forget him by visiting one of my male. . I should leave,” she stuttered, her lower lip trembling and her heart pounding in her ears. As she tried to slink away to the right, the alien placed his hand against the wall to block her passage, his arm thicker than her thighs and his seven stubby fingers splayed across the metal. She looked up at him again, now afraid, but he didn’t look angry.He loosed a low frequency rumble, shaking her bones and sending more of those arousing vibrations through her loins, another mating call. She tried. ‘Good thought, Lieutenant.’ I said. ‘Keep that up, and the Chief might just replace me with you.’ ‘And send you to the Crime Lab, Mr. Chemistry major.’ Tanya replied with her wicked grin. ‘Don’t you threaten me!’ I shot back, causing both of us to break down laughing. Just then, Cindy came down the hall and saw us, wondering what the joke was… * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ‘That Detective Cummings is really impressing me.’ said Chief Moynahan as I sat with him in the Chief’s office. He was.