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  Healing the Alien’s Heart

  Scifi Alien Romance

  By

  Anna Lewis

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  Healing the Alien’s Heart

  Special Bonus Full Length Stories

  Playing Their Game

  Cosmically Yours

  Black Dragons

  Forever Yours

  The Dragon Twins

  Brother Blues - MC Biker

  Alien Colony

  Cyborg Heart

  Two Hot To Handle - Billionaire Menage

  Two Wolves of Winter’s Lake - Shifter Menage

  Learning with the Dragons

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  Healing the Alien’s Heart

  Chapter 1

  Raven’s jet black hair threatened to cascade down her face as she peered into the open cavity of an amber colored Arbogodian who travelled weeks through space just to get into her clinic. With its three hearts beating out of sync, she worked her gloved hands around the being’s organs, trying to get them all in rhythm. The slight jolt in one of her fingertips was worrisome, but her gloves hadn’t malfunctioned in weeks. She could have sworn she worked the kinks out of them, but her index finger jittered again.

  “I need my extra glove,” she called out from behind her operating mask. The plastic shield wrapped around her face like she was wearing a HAZMAT suit, but her voice was as clear as day. One of the assistants in the room rushed to prep an extra operating glove. Another waited patiently for Raven to pull her hand out of the body.

  “Glove is ready, Dr. Glass,” the assistant held it up proudly.

  Raven sighed as she used one hand to hold her place in one heart while taking her malfunctioning hand out. The two assistants worked to switch the gloves. It was like watching a NASCAR service pit. They moved fast, and before Raven could think about scolding them for their sloth-like movements, it was done. She resumed her surgery finishing a few hours later.

  With her hair now flowing freely, she stood in the cozy medical suite of the alien she’d just operated on. She could tell he was woozy, but she was certain that he was able to understand, “Everything went well. Your surgery was a success. Your hearts are beating in sync and within a few days, all of your organs will follow suit. You should start feeling like your normal self within the next day or two. Stick to the diet I gave you in your take home package and I don’t want to see you back here unless it’s to bring me flowers. Okay, Mr. Geradfwew?”

  “Understood,” the alien nodded. “Flowers will be sent in abundance for all that you have done for me. Thank you for making the time.”

  “Well coming from the third moon of Arbog is quite the journey to make. I thought it only right that I do. The bill is in your take home packet too.”

  “Wait, I brought you something that could cover it. Please check my bag there. You Earthlings have a thing about rocks, right?”

  Raven’s cool grey eyes narrowed their gaze onto the creature as she walked over to the bag. Inside were no mere space rocks. One rock was encased in a thick plastic case that she was almost scared to touch. The other two in the bag were uncut gemstones; one sapphire and the other a ruby. Both stones were about the size of golf balls and Raven was sure they’d net her over a hundred thousand dollars.

  “Just the sapphire and the ruby. The Uborium has another destination to get to. Thanks again, Dr. Glass,” he told her solemnly.

  She smiled and left the room marking on his chart that his balance was paid in full. Once she was in her office, she put the stones in a special tin box and closed the lid. It was lined with special sensors that told her everything she needed to know about the mineral, especially its value. The commas and zeroes were much higher than she expected, but she knew she was worth every penny.

  There was a subtle knock on her door, followed by the top of Dr. Monroe’s head poking into her office. Dr. Tracy Monroe had been working with Raven since she opened her private practice. She opted to treat their human clientele while Raven focused on the others. Her voice was high pitched and bubbly with ringlets of curls bouncing all over the place.

  “You have a call,” she sang. “And your mom left a message saying to bring over that pink wine she likes.”

  “Of course, she wants to get drunk on the one night I agree to dinner. I need a vacation and I think I’m going to start that now,” Raven joked. “You know I just spent six hours elbow deep in an Arbogodian? I’m going to have to soak in oatmeal and talc to get this smell out.”

  “Six hours isn’t bad. I just did a triple bypass on Mr. Wellington and that took me forever!” she stepped into the office and plopped down on the leather chair in front of her desk. Raven’s medical degrees and awards all hung on the wall proudly alongside dozens of pictures of her travels. Travels that brought her to the far corners of the galaxy and back all because she was the best. Tracy always enjoyed looking over her wall of accomplishments.

  “When you say forever,” Raven smirked, “how long are you talking?”

  “It took me three whole hours! The gloves were malfunctioning again,” she whined.

  “Was it the glove or the surgeon in the glove?” Raven laughed.

  “It may have been me. I still can’t get the hang of focusing my mind and nerves on which tool I need and what body part I need to be operating on all at the same time.”

  “That’s the genius of the gloves though! I’ve worked with the best nano technicians in the galaxy to develop that technology and all you have to do is take a six-hour course and practice! I keep telling you the easiest way is to set the glove programming to whatever surgery you’re doing and let the software do the rest. All you have to do is move those cute little fingers of yours. Speaking of which, I’m going to move these cute little fingers of mine toward a margarita on a sandy beach somewhere. I need to move my patients around, but they shouldn’t be any trouble for you and I should be back in a few days. I just need some time to myself for a little bit.”

  Dr. Monroe’s eyes lit up. “Shoot! That’s why I came in here. You have a call Rae. So, before you go groping fancy drinks with umbrellas in it…take this call. It’s from the palace of Xulara. I think it’s urgent, or important at the very least.”

  “Fine,” Raven sighed. Peering down at the assortment of buttons on her desk, she pushed the one flashing yellow, which pushed a paper-thin screen up from inside the front panel of her desk. It powered on for her to see a dark purple figure with three eyes, one large slit for a nose, and glowing grey hair that swooped delicately in front of its golden colored eyes. Staring at the being on the screen, she smiled and spoke gently, “Good evening, this is Doctor Raven Glass. How may I help you?”

  “I am Guarin of Xulara. Our dear
Queen Ozhenia has fallen gravely ill. We have several physicians on staff but they have been making very little progress in repairing her condition. It’s been brought to my attention that you have a specialty in interplanetary medicinal technology. Perhaps you can do some exploratory examinations to help her. We are in dire need of your assistance. I can have a ship out to you by midnight your time. Just say that you’ll come.”

  “Guarin, wow,” Raven was stunned. “Um, I’m flattered that my reputation has reached your planet. I was planning to take some time off, but I guess I can come to you and once the diagnosis is absolute, I can leave her in the hands of the physicians you have on staff.”

  “Thank you. I believe that will be sufficient. They just need a breakthrough and I feel you’re the best one in the galaxy to help get us there. Please meet the shuttle at the Kennedy-Bush Space Center at midnight tonight. I will have everything you need to read about her symptoms and medical history aboard the shuttle. I thank you again, Dr. Glass.”

  “Sure, and as far as payment is concerned?” she wondered before letting him disconnect the call.

  “Funds in excess of 2.8 million Earth dollars will be deposited into your account once you’re aboard the shuttle, Doctor,” Guarin told her.

  “I’ll be ready at midnight,” she told him. The numbers sounded right and Raven hung up the phone. She pulled up her computer to draft the agreement she’d bring with her to the palace and to do a little bit of research. Guarin was Queen Ozhenia’s right hand minion. They’d been friends for years and he never left her side.

  Raven wondered if she would ever find a companion like that. However, she didn’t want a servant. She wanted love. No human was good enough, and no alien managed to pique her interest. So, she resolved to being happy and single…and rich. Money wasn’t everything, and it wouldn’t hold her close late at night, but it would certainly buy her a blanket warm enough to do the job.

  Laughing to herself, she packed her things up from a long day and headed over to her parents’ house. Dinner was mandatory for her that night since she’d been working so hard lately and missed the last few that her mother hosted. But especially now with her new assignment, it would be the perfect time to tell them, she was headed out into the stars again.

  Chapter 2

  Raven imagined that sleep might be the only thing she could do in order to take her mind off of the failed family dinner as she sat on a shuttle, blasting its way through space to Xulara. But even as she dreamt, the voice of her mother rang loud and clear, “You just got back and you’re already off to save another one of them! What about us?! You just don’t care about your family when we’re the ones who got you through med school and that damn robotics academy! We’re the reason you’re so successful and you can’t even sit down for an hour to have dinner! Just go, Rae!”

  With her mother’s voice slicing through her mind like a thin razor blade, she woke up after days of traveling, to see she was in the atmosphere of another planet. The skies were similar to Earth, but it’s sun was an off white, fading into pink off in the distance. The clouds drifting by were a soft lilac. There were areas of dark rain, showering over plants and vegetation, plants and vegetation that seemed to be moving with life and not just with the breeze blowing by. The mountainous ranges were a magnificent black, with a twinge of sparkle as the sunlight bounced off its surface. She watched as the planet’s inhabitants skied down the illustrious slopes. Rivers flowed a beautiful cerulean blue with aquatic life she’d never seen before.

  The closer and closer they got to, what appeared to be, some sort of terminal, the more aliens she saw. They were all shades of purple and blue. Beautifully tall and moving majestically. She was enamored with the new world in front of her. Even with all of her travels, while she’d met a few Xularese, she’d never been to the planet before. It was breathtaking.

  The loudspeaker crackled as a voice came over loudly, “Thank you for flying with us. The royal family of Xulara hopes you find your stay to be quite welcoming. If you notice the bag that was given to you, please find the oxygen conversion node as you will need it to breathe and to speak with the inhabitants. As we land, the oxygen in the cabin will be turned off. Thank you again and welcome to Xulara.”

  Raven was familiar with oxygen nodes. They were small devices the size of apple seeds that she had to swallow like pills. Somewhere along her trachea, they’d attach themselves and catch whatever gasses were in the air to convert them to good old O2. She was happy to see they had the updated version with the built-in translator. The original nodes actually cut gills into the neck and interspecies communication wasn’t even an option. It was very unpleasant, to say the least.

  With a deep breath, she chucked the two devices in her mouth and chased them with a swig of water. While they went down fairly easy, the attaching process wasn’t the most pleasant. She clenched as the nodes gripped the inside of her throat. Lights flashed and the sound of air deflating from a tire surrounded her. The pressure was dropping and she pulled out a mask that was in the bag as well. She strapped it onto her face just in case the nodes took longer than usual to adjust, gripped her restraints, and braced herself for the landing.

  The shuttle docking wasn’t as rocky as Raven thought it was going to be and she breathed a sigh of relief when the doors opened and the same purple creature who called her, was there to greet her.

  Guarin wasn’t very tall at all. He stood a few inches under her 5’8 stature, but his presence felt like he should be bowed to. Raven curtsied as she greeted him. “Thank you for flying me out. The shuttle was amazing.”

  “Glad that you were able to come on such short notice. Please follow me, Dr. Glass,” he instructed and held out a massively thick tentacle. He had four of them, two on each side with two legs as wide as elephant feet. Every foot step could be heard with a heavy thud that echoed through the launch pad hallways. She continued to follow behind him until they reached a huge door. It was guarded by eight, tall, Xularese, warriors.

  All eight of them stood side by side with their three fingered hands clenched around a metal rod centered in front of them. Their skin glistened a dark, denim blue, with glints of silver that radiated all over their bodies. They wore silver kilts made of metal, that looked sharp enough to cut her hand, but Raven knew their skin was practically impenetrable. No hair covered their heads. Two rows of dull horns, equally spaced apart, trailed over the top of their foreheads, over the crown and down the back of the head until they met at the nape of the neck where the lanes of bonelike points forged into a solitary row down the spine. They were intimidating to say the least as Raven stared at them unintentionally.

  “By order of his royal highness, Prince Eoch, stand down and let us through!” Guarin barked to the guards.

  All but one stood absolutely still. He raised his hand to his ear and mumbled something before shouting to the others, “Give them entrance.”

  The guards moved to the side of the door as it opened slowly. A bright light shined brightly as she followed Guarin directly into the palace.

  “Wow,” was all she could mutter. “The shuttle doesn’t land in a terminal? It goes right to the palace? Isn’t that kind of dangerous?”

  “It’s the family’s private shuttle, Doctor,” Guarin told her.

  Of course it was, she thought to herself. With her medical bag hanging off her shoulder, Raven gripped it tightly as they moved through the seemingly dark hallways. It wasn’t at all what she expected given the bright light that nearly blinded her when they first stepped through the doors. But she kept her mouth shut as she followed Guarin through the halls. Every surface around her looked to be made of marble, only separated by thick plates of metal that ran a checkered outline around the coral colored stone.

  Raven’s eyes darted all over the place as she walked about a pace behind Guarin. There was so much to take in, so many similarities to Earth’s architecture, while there was much to see that was not. The further down the hall they walked, the closer they
got to another large door. There weren’t any guards this time, only a solitary figure standing there.

  He was tall like the other guards, but he had greyish white hair that covered his pointed horns which trailed his head and down into his spine. The kilt he wore was a magnificent gold color and instead of a metal rod, he held a weapon with sharp blades at either end. The tips were jagged enough that Raven knew they’d have to rip through the flesh of anyone struck with it. It made her shiver and shrink away in fear.

  “Prince Eoch, this is Doctor Raven Glass. She has just arrived and wishes to see the queen immediately,” Guarin announced.

  “I know why she’s here,” he snarled to the servant.

  Raven studied him a bit more, tracing his muscular physique with her eyes. His navy blue skin didn’t have any illumination like the others, but his presence was powerful, demanding. She couldn’t help but wonder if there was a princess to complement his crown. Shaking the impure fantasy from her head, she curtsied as low as she could without falling over.

  “It will be an honor to serve you and your family,” Raven spoke intently but soft.

  “Rise and enter,” the prince commanded as he stepped aside to open the door.

  Raven did as she was told. While she wasn’t sure if it was intentional on his part, or if she was simply being clumsy from her travels, as she walked by the prince, her hand grazed his. The moment was so slight that no one in the room noticed it, but the mere touch of their skin to one another was electric. It sent a shock straight to her pussy that quivered like it never had before. Turning around, she eyed him wildly, before regaining her composure. She wanted her face to be menacing and bold as if to tell him to never do that again, but her curiosity was piqued. She wanted to know exactly what that was and she wanted it to happen again. But her burgeoning lust for Prince Eoch would have to wait as she prepared herself to assist the ailing queen.