ALIEN ABDUCTION (Captured by Aliens) by Jaide Fox Read Free Book Online Page A

she placed her bare feet, for the
sand was full of  broken shells and tough weeds and heaven only knew what sort
of dangerous little creatures.
     
    “I can
tell you that I was a real outsider when I was young.  I’d bury my nose in
books when most of my friends were out dating and partying.  But I never cared
about what anybody thought, and so to everyone else I was just kind of weird
and quirky.  And that’s usually enough to brand you a troublemaker.”
     
    “You have
a sister, too, don’t you?”
     
    Ebony
looked away.  “One sister.  Adrienne.”
     
    “She is
here, too?”
     
    “She was
abducted along with me.  But she never had to enter the harem when she married
the Captain of the Guard not long ago.  I--I don’t see her much now.  We…”  Ebony
fell silent.
     
    “You must
miss her very much,” said Cassie, joining Ebony and Rebecca.
     
    Ebony
nodded, and stared down at the sand as they walked.  “I hardly see her,” she
whispered.  “It’s hard.”
     
    Then
Cassie started to trot towards the rest of the group, holding her bound wrists
out in front of her.  “Oh, look!  We’re falling behind!  Come on!  Run!  We
could be punished if we don’t keep up!”
     
    Ebony
tried to jog a couple of steps, but stopped again just as quickly.  She decided
she’d had enough exertion already for one morning, and the heavy sand made it
nearly impossible to walk--much less run.  She watched Cassie and Rebecca hurry
away, but suddenly decided that she was not going to run one more step. 
     
    Then she
looked up to see Fallon and Damon walking towards her.  Fallon, the one with
the silvery black hair and the apparent leader, seemed determined to keep her
within reach.
     
    “Damon,
pick her up.  We can’t afford these delays,” Fallon said, and Ebony found
herself abruptly hauled in the air.  She shrieked as she was slung across a set
of broad shoulders. 
     
    Damon caught
her arms on one side of his head and her legs on the other.  He grunted as she
shifted her weight and then trudged towards the path on the hillside, leaving
her feeling embarrassed and insulted at the same time.
     
    She
wanted to argue and fight, but bit back her roiling emotions and merely glared
at Fallon instead as he followed along behind.  Being a hothead wasn’t going to
get her out of this.  She was old enough to know better than that, even though
her first instinct was to rip her nails into this other man’s neck...maybe take
a little off his ear with her teeth...and tear out some of his long, silky hair...
     
    He did
have very pretty hair that felt soft against her arms.
     
    On the
upside, everyone was going to be tired from climbing and walking.  Being
carried gave her a chance to rest.  Perhaps, if she was lucky, she’d still get
an opportunity to get the hell out of this mess.
     
    “There,
you see?” said Fallon.  “You can be a good girl, when you want to.”
     
    Ebony
gave him a sly smile, even as her eyes narrowed.  Yes, I can.  I certainly
can.
    ***
     
    At last
they reached the very top of the hillside.  Damon shrugged his shoulders and
allowed Ebony to slide down his back and onto her feet.  Catching her breath,
she looked up and saw only the sea stretching for miles far below them, and
when she turned around there was a dark and apparently endless pine forest only
a short distance away.
     
    “Keep
going,” Fallon ordered, as he came up to the top of the hillside--the last one
to do so.  “There’s no time to lose.”
     
    The men
walked at the front of the group while the women followed them, and all formed
a single-file line as they began moving through waist-high grass that had gone
to seed under the warm sun.  The black seeds clung to Ebony’s damp red skirt
like flakes of pepper as she pushed through the grass behind Damon.  Fallon
stayed right behind her and brought up the rear, constantly scanning the
treetops for signs of Zhala pursuit.
     
    As they
walked