Lindsey was sitting on the edge of a fishing pier at two in the morning, bawling her eyes out. She had caught her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend and her best friend's husband. Lindsey had passed out drunk, only to wake up and stumble upon Mike, with his head buried in Jen's pussy, and Bill plowing into him from behind. Assholes. All three of them.
Now Lindsey was stuck in South Carolina with nothing but a ticket for a plane that didn't leave for another four days. The 24-year-old just kept sobbing, and kicking her bare feet into the inky water, and knocking back a bottle of whiskey.
A sound cut through the air. It was a long, low, guttural crackle. The primal noise sent a heat to the woman's core.
"Who is there?" Lindsey called.
There was no reply.
The strawberry blonde resumed her drinking, but stilled her splashing feet. She saw a shadowy shape rise up out of the water.
"Who is there?" the drunk woman shouted. "I don't give a shit, you know. I lost everything tonight, so go ahead and kill me. At least give me a good time first, you serial-killer fuck."
The figure stepped closer, and the features were finally visible in the moonlight. Lindsey dropped her bottle into the water, and scuttled backwards, head tilted back and eyes wide as she processed the sight in front of her.
The creature had a lithe figure. He stood upright, on two short, scaly legs that ended in webbed feet. His body was lithe. The humanoid torso was muscular, but not very broad, like the figure a male gymnast might have. A long tapered tail swung out from the creature's backside, curling in the muck on the ground before it.
The body was covered in green-black scales, which shimmered in the moonlight. The face had a snout that jutted out of his face like an alligator's, only shorter.
Now that he was closer, Lindsey could see that the creature was only a little taller than she was.
The drunk woman stood up, and snorted. "What kind of monster are you supposed to be, shorty?"
The gator-man cocked his head to the side. His intelligent gold eyes were inquisitive. He was not clearly not used to this reaction, and didn't know quite what to make of the brash woman.
The idea of flustering a literal monster greatly appealed to the woman.
"I meant what I said about the good time too, Scales." Lindsey walked closer to the gator-man and spayed her hand across his narrow yet muscular chest. "I thought Mike was taking me to Bill and Jen's beach house to propose. Instead he just wanted to fuck around. Well, I'm sick of being the good girl, of trying to land a husband. I wasted two years on that jerk."
The creature said something that Lindsey couldn't understand, in a language made up of grunts and spoken from the throat. The creature held Lindsey, hugging her close, and rubbing her back with a webbed hand. The woman smiled and shook her head in wonder. The gator-man was trying to comfort her.
She looked up and grinned. "So, Scales, what are you packing?" Human blue eyes met intelligent reptilian gold ones. Both sets were full of lust and mutual understanding.