Elyrian Brides I: Octavia

Sunshine Taylor Reddick

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Chapter 1

 

ACHOO! Octavia swore to herself that if she sneezed one more time that her brains would shoot right out of her ears thus ending her misery and summer cold. People moved away from her as she hurried her tired and aching body down the street to the drug store. It was August in Baltimore City which meant it was hot and humid.

The thermometer flashed 94 degrees Fahrenheit at her but even standing in a patch of sunshine she was chilled. “Damn it!” She swore under her breath as she stood on the corner waiting for the light to change. This was looking less and less like a cold and more like the flu. Only I would catch the flu two weeks before my first cruise! The light changed and she merged with the crowd to cross the street.

Her boss had taken one look at her as she came through the door and shooed her right back out admonishing her for showing up to work sick. She hadn’t realized she looked that bad and she understood. She was a patient service coordinator in the outpatient cancer clinic.

The last thing the patients needed was to be sneezed on by her but she had wanted to come to work today if for no other reason than to get a look at the new equipment that had just been gifted to the hospital by the aliens from a world called Elyria. Everyone called them the Elyrians. A race of people who looked as human as anyone on Earth except for the yellow of their skin.

And they didn’t just come in one shade of yellow. They were sunburst, golden, pastel, and mustard of the spicy and deli variety. The Elyrians had come offering much and asking for a lot in return. They promised to give whether the people of Earth returned the favor or not. They were asking for wives. As if on cue she looked up and an Elyrian man caught her eye. She waved him away as he approached but he kept coming anyway.

Elyrian Brides I: Octavia Description:

Octavia Bryant is everything a well brought up young buppie woman from the Old Line State of Maryland is supposed to be. She is smart, classy, hardworking, respectful, independent, and waiting for a milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or café au lait colored Rhett Butler of her very own. Just as long as he’s black she’ll make her father proud. More than anything she wants love and a home and a family.

The universe throws a wrench in her little buppie life after the men from Elyria arrive on Earth looking for wives. And they only have eyes for women of color. But Octavia isn’t having any of them until six feet six inches of muscles covered in a sunset yellow skin named Kade Egon sees her and turns her life upside down. Kade Egon wants a wife and he has his heart set on Octavia from the moment he lays eyes on her.

He wines her, dines her, and takes her on spaceship rides around the Milky Way. He promises her love, a home, family, and passion. How can she say no? Kade just seems too good to be true. There are still things he won’t tell her about Elyria and himself. Octavia has been lied to before by smooth talking men who only wanted one thing.

How can she be sure that Kade means all that he says? And what are Elyria’s secrets? As her mother reminds her, the last time blacks got on a boat run by non-blacks they were enslaved. Can Octavia overcome her fears and leave her family and Earth behind to take a chance on love among the stars?

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