The Trillionaire's Kiss: Book One in Trillionaire Wishes (Fountain of Love)

The Trillionaire's Kiss

Book One in Trillionaire Wishes

By Ella Mansfield

Copyright 2014

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After a fun girls' night out with her two best friends, Alicia wishes on a fountain that has appeared in the park in their small Minnesota town.  She wishes for a rich man who will treat her like she's the only woman in the world.

Calor finds the same fountain and wishes on it, over three hundred years later in a world where women have almost all died off.  When a woman falls from the sky and lands at his feet, he knows the fountain is what has brought her to him.  

It takes Alicia some time to realize that she's not only three hundred years in the future, but she's now in Texas.  She does the only logical thing she can do, and marries the man who found her, hoping together they can help keep the human race alive.  Will she ever be more to him than just the only woman possible?  Or will he love her for who she is?

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Chapter One

Alicia
leaned back in her chair and sighed, looking at the remains of the huge meal she and her friends had eaten at the chain Italian place where they got together every Wednesday evening.  She, Megan, and Alexa had been best friends since they'd gone to college together and had pledged the same sorority.  At one of the very first sorority bashes, they'd made a promise to one another to never allow an unworthy man to come between them.  "I'm stuffed!  We have got to stop doing appetizer, main course,
and
dessert."  She patted her belly.  "We need to walk through the park to work off this food baby of mine."

The other two girls both nodded.  "I feel like I'm going to explode,"
Megan groaned.  Megan was a slim girl with brown hair and hazel eyes.  She taught first grade at the local elementary school. 

"I'm in for a walk,"
Alexa agreed.  "Let's go."  Alexa had dark hair, almost black, and huge brown eyes.  She was the librarian at the city's only library.

After college all three women had settled down in Oakville.  They'd wanted to stay together, at first to room together, but now just to support one another in their everyday lives.  None of them were currently dating anyone, even casually. How they'd thought they would meet someone and fall in love in tiny little Oakville, Minnesota, none of them knew. 
It had seemed like a good idea at the time.

Alicia
slipped her credit card into her wallet.  It was her turn to pay.  She paid more than the other two, because her job as an attorney gave her a bigger budget to work with than the other two had.  "Let's get out of here," she suggested.

The three of them walked from the restaurant to the small, pretty park across the street.  It was set on one of Minnesota's many lakes, and had extensive walking paths.  "So, what are your weekend plans?"
Alicia asked the others as they strolled along the paths at a sedate pace.

Megan
shrugged.  "I need to work on lesson plans.  As usual.  I'll be glad when school's out for the year.  Just three more weeks!"  Megan had been counting down the days since October first.

"I'm working tomorrow,"
Alexa answered, "but I have Sunday off.  Thank God!"  Alexa often worked weekends, and she wished she had weekends off like her friends.  She tried not to complain too much, but sometimes, she couldn't help it.

"We should all do something on Sunday.  Maybe go see the new chick flick?"
Alicia was sick of waiting around at home for Mr. Right to sweep her off her feet.  He was taking altogether too long to show up at her doorstep.  She was going to have fun in the mean time.

Megan
shrugged.  "I could do that.  I'll need a break by then." 

Alexa
nodded.  "Sure.  Nothing better to do."  She squinted off into the distance.  "Hey, someone built a fountain next to the lake!"

Alicia
looked in the direction her friend pointed.  "That does look like a fountain.  Huh.  I don't remember that being on the docket for the city."  She frowned.  Everything that happened in the city came across her desk at one point or another.  It was strange something like a fountain being built in the park hadn't been mentioned to her.  She started walking toward the fountain, feeling drawn to it.  She had no idea why, but she needed to see it up close. 

Alexa
and Megan exchanged looks as they followed Alicia.  They'd never seen her so focused on anything in their years of friendship.

Alicia
placed her hand on the fountain, and it felt as if it were pulsing beneath her hand.  She had no desire to pull away, though.  She turned to the others.  "It wants us to make a wish?"

Megan
gave a half laugh.  "The
fountain
wants the three of us to make a wish."  She placed her hand on the fountain, and her face changed.  No longer laughing at her friend, she looked at Alexa, a shocked look on her face.  "It does.  We need to make a wish."

Alexa
shook her head at the other two, placing her hand on the fountain to humor them.  She felt it too.  "Yes, we need to make a wish."

Alicia
took a deep breath.  "Me first, then Megan, and then Alexa.  It's the order the fountain wants us to wish in."  How she knew that, she wasn't certain, but she knew it needed to be done immediately.  The fountain needed it.

The other two nodded.  Usually, if
Alicia were to make a wish, it would be silent and unspoken.  The fountain wanted her to speak, though.  She had no idea how she knew, but she did.  She had to do exactly what it wanted if she were to get her wish.  "I wish...I could find a rich man, who would love me, as if I were the only woman in the world." 

Megan
didn't hesitate as she made her wish next. "I wish for a rich man who will treat me like the most important person in the entire world.  Someone whose eyes will never wander."

Alexa's
words were next.  "I wish for a rich man who will sweep me off my feet and propose within minutes of meeting me."

Alicia
felt so strongly that the wishes would come true, she almost expected to open her eyes and find three rich men standing before them.  She slowly opened them, but there was nothing there that hadn't been when she'd first stepped to the fountain.  She dropped her hand and took a step back.  "Wow.  I almost thought it was real for a minute there."  The three of them laughed shakily as they started to walk further around the small lake. 

"That was really intense.  It
felt
real."  Alexa stared out at the water, expecting her rich man to appear out of the center.  She felt like there was one coming to her.

Megan
nodded.  "It did.  I want him now.  I can almost see him." 

They walked on in silence for a few moments before Alicia stopped short.  "I can't move!" she cried out, feeling as if her feet had turned into cement blocks.
She reached her hands toward her friends.

The other two turned to her, their eyes wide with fear.  "Why can't you
move?" Megan asked.

Alicia shook her head, feeling as if every muscle in her body had weights attached, and then she fell.  The ground wasn't that far away, so why did it feel as if she'd fallen miles and miles.  She closed her eyes, just for a moment as she sat there in the grass.  What an odd evening.

*****

Calor wandered around the small park in McKinney, Texas.  He was lonely, plain and simple.  There were men all around making eyes at him, but he didn't want a man. He'd never been attracted to men, and he knew that wasn't going to start now. 
He thought longingly of the auctions he knew were taking place for some women in Wisconsin, but even though he was a trillionaire, he couldn't afford to put in a fourth of the price for one of those women. He'd have nothing left.

He sighed.  He'd rather not have to share his bride anyway.  He kept watching old movies where it was just one man and one woman, and he was going to lose his mind if he didn't stop.  There were no women available for him, full stop.  He had to get over the idea that he would someday marry and have a house full of children.  At this point?  That was only for science fiction, not for men focused on the here and now.

As a spacecraft engineer, Calor worked with cutting edge science and was very firmly focused on the present.  Yes, someday the earth may be repopulated, but it wasn't going to happen any time soon.  And girls didn't just fall out of the sky at his feet.  He sure wished they would, but they never had.

As he walked, he spotted a small fountain next to the pond in the park he was walking through.  He'd never noticed it before, so he wanted to look more closely.  He walked to it and realized the design was ancient.  Probably dating back to the 1800s.  He stepped closer, placing one hand on the fountain to feel it's design.

All at once he felt the compelling urge to make a wish.  Why he didn't know.  He stood for a moment, ready to laugh at himself, and then he just went with the urge.  He closed his eyes, and he wished.  "I wish a beautiful woman would fall from the sky and land at my feet without getting hurt, of course.  She needs to be a breeder who will belong to only me."  The idea of a breeder, and one who belonged to only him, kept him awake at night.  It wasn't possible, of course.  How could it be?

He stepped back and opened his eyes, feeling as if he
should see a woman at his feet.  He laughed at himself as he continued his walk through the park, taking one last look at the fountain over his shoulder.  What was it that was so compelling about that thing?

He walked deeper into a wooded area and sat on a bench with his face in his hands.  How had life come to this?  He was desperate for a woman.  He'd almost take a non-breeder at that point, even though there were none below the age of sixty, and they were all shriveled enough to look at least ninety.  He rubbed the back of his neck, making a decision then and there.

When he got home, he needed to throw away his old movie collection.  He enjoyed them, but he needed to learn that he couldn't live in their world.  Ever.  His world was so much colder and lonelier.

He stood, starting to walk out of the park, determined to throw the movies away before he lost the courage.  He was almost to the edge of the woods, when seemingly out of the sky, a woman landed on the ground at his feet.  Her eyes were closed, but she was a beauty.  She had blond hair and her curves.  Beautiful curves.  He wanted to take those curves into his hands and never let go.

He dropped to his knees at her side.  "Are you all right?"  He put his hand at her neck to feel if there was a pulse, frightened she'd died in the fall, but her heartbeat was strong and steady.  He gathered her to him, half on his lap, and cupped the back of her head in his hand.  "Talk to me."

When she didn't immediately respond, he did something that he knew he shouldn't, but he didn't care.  Never had he kissed a woman, and her lips looked so soft and inviting.  He leaned down and gently brushed his lips against hers, needing the feel of her against him.  He felt a slight movement of her lips and lifted his head to bright blue eyes staring
up at him. 

Alicia stared up into the eyes of the man who held her against him.  Where was she?  The last thing she remembered was talking to Megan and
Alexa...and making a wish on a fountain.  "Who are you?"  Feeling his arms around her made her feel protected in an odd way.  She had no idea why, because usually a total stranger touching her this way would make her extremely uncomfortable.

Calor smiled as he gathered her even closer, so he could feel her curves against him.  "My name is Calor."

She wrinkled her nose.  Who'd ever heard of a name like 'Calor?'  "I'm Alicia."  She looked around her.  "Where are Megan and Alexa?"  She had to find her friends.  The park didn't look right.  Why had the park changed since she fell?  That didn't make sense at all.

His eyes widened in surprise.  "There are other women with you?"

She nodded, obviously confused.  "Well, there were.  There were three of us walking through the park together."  She glanced from side to side.  "Are we still in the park?"  She had to get her head on straight.  The strange heaviness seemed to be leaving her limbs, but she wasn't certain she could sit up yet.

"Yes, we're in the park.  I didn't see anyone with you when you fell, though."  He stroked her cheek as if he'd never
touched a woman before. 

She almost pushed his hand away, but the look of reverence on his face stopped her.  "You saw me fall, but you didn't see my friends?  They were right beside me."
  How had he not seen them?

Calor shook his head.  "I've never seen three women together in my entire life.  I would have remembered."

Alicia laughed softly, trying to get to her feet.  "How could you never have seen three women together in your life?  That's crazy!  Did you grow up in some all male colony or something?" Alicia had never heard of such a thing, but she didn't doubt that they existed.  There were so many strange things in the world!

He looked at her for a moment, stunned.  Her clothing looked like it was made of real cotton fabric.  He slid his hand up her thigh, feeling the texture of the jeans she wore.  "I need to ask you something, and I don't want you to think I'm crazy or anything."

She already thought he was crazy with the way he'd scooped up a total stranger in the park and started kissing her.  She nodded to humor him, though.  "What?"

"What year is it?"  He'd come to a conclusion that made no sense scientifically, but he could think of no other reason she would have fallen from the sky wearing clothes that hadn't been worn in well over a century.

She frowned.  Yes, that question was crazy.  "It's 2014."  She wondered if she could quietly escape from him and alert the authorities.  He must have escaped from an institution somewhere.  He nodded, seeming to consider his next words carefully.  Did crazy people do that?

"It's 2342.  I made a wish on a fountain, and I think it brought you forward in time."  He knew she wouldn't believe him, because she had a careful look on her face as if she was humoring him.  "I'm sorry."