ALIEN ABDUCTION (Captured by Aliens) by Jaide Fox

anyone chasing us,” she began.  “It makes me
wonder if you all had someone on the inside of the city to help you carry out
your plan to steal us.”
     
    She heard
a little snort of laughter from Fallon.  “Woman, do you think I would tell you
anything about our plans?”
     
    Ebony
shrugged.  “Well, it makes sense that you might have supporters in the palace. 
Not everyone could, or would, love the king.  It just ain’t in free-thinking
people’s nature to unconditionally love their rulers.”
     
    When he
remained silent, Ebony kept talking.  “Of course, you say that you should have been king.  I’m not sure why you think that.  Are you any better than
he is?”
     
    “It is
not your place to ask me anything.”
     
    “Hmm...You
think you’re better because you’re brothers, and some kind of sibling rivalry
convinced you that you should have been chosen instead.”
     
    All she
could hear from Fallon, as he continued to walk through the forest behind her,
was a kind of low, angry growling sound.
     
    She
smiled to herself.  He didn’t realize yet that if Miss Ebony Raines had nothing
else, she had tenacity, and she would get some answers eventually.  She’d wear
Fallon down until he gave her what she wanted, and he wouldn’t even realize
what happened.  She didn’t have anything else to distract her from satisfying
her curiosity, and she rather liked the way she irritated him.  Maybe she was
just a bitch, but grating on his nerves amused her.
     
    All
right, she was a bitch, and she could admit that.  The way his jaw
tightened, and the vein pulsed on his temple, whenever she opened her mouth
made her chuckle mentally.
     
    Then the
rushing sound of water broke through her mental conversation with herself--and
she looked up to find that they were approaching a river.  One glance at the
water made her stop dead in her tracks.
     
    This
river was wide.  And deep--she couldn’t tell how deep.  But there were boulders
scattered all through it, and rapids splashing white and fast around the
boulders.  Ebony stood and stared.  “Are you kidding me?  Where’s the bridge?”
     
    “No
bridge,” grunted Fallon, pushing her towards the front of the group.  “Walk.”
     
    “Not on
your life!  Wait a minute!” Ebony cried, digging in her heels and leaning back
against Fallon.  “My girls and I have been stuck in that goddam harem with no
exercise for months.  We’re exhausted just from this walking.  That’s a
swift-moving river.  What are you thinking?”
     
    “Not deep. 
Walk.  Go.”
     
    “Hey, it
only takes a few inches to carry off a car!  I know I’m stacked top and bottom,
but I still weigh less than a car.  And I’m not a great swimmer.”
     
    He looked
down at her forehead, and then glanced at the others.  “It’s not that deep.  You
don’t have to swim it.”
     
    “But what
if we slip and fall?  We could drown.  We’re not even wearing shoes,” she said.
     
    “She’s
right,” Damon said.
     
    “All
right.  Carry them across,” Fallon said to his men.  He gave Ebony a warning
look and then turned her around and hefted her up like a child, putting her up
over his head to sit on his shoulders.  “But do not do anything stupid.”
     
    Ebony
squealed and then clung to his head, clamping her thighs around his cheeks as
he eased into the swift moving water.  Slight panic made her heart thump hard
in her chest.  Fallon mumbled something to her, but she could not hear him.
     
    Then she
realized that she’d tightened her hold on him with her legs until her thighs
completely covered his nose and mouth.  That might’ve made her laugh if her
fate didn’t depend on him not suffocating and dropping them both in the water. 
The water hit him at mid-thigh, which would put it waist high on her--and that
was too deep for her liking, especially with the fast-moving current rushing
through it.
     
    She moved
her hands under his chin, held on tight and