Page 1 of Captured By the Dragon Warlord
SCARLETT
Iam absolutely livid.
I twist my wrists, fighting at the bonds which hold me. Even though my chances of being able to get free are less than zero, it makes me feel better. I also scream against the gag shoved in my mouth.
Again, not helping. Again, I feel a bit better.
I’m not going quietly. Not ever again. I’m bumped up and down, thrown, as far as I can tell, over a scaly shoulder. My head is covered completely. All I can see is light and dark.
The bumping and the fact I’m dangling head down is particularly uncomfortable. If I wasn’t as mad as I am, I would probably be throwing up.
But I am so mad. So, so mad. The bile within me is keeping me going.
Finally the bumping stops. Muffled voices reach my ears, and I strain to catch what they’re saying. But it’s no good. I can’t make anything out other than the rasping. I’m spun one way, then another, as if whoever has me wants me to be dizzy.
I am not going to let them win. I did more than enough being a doormat while I was on Earth. All my exterior being thesuccessful businesswoman, all my home life doing whatever my mother told me to do.
A mother who had never mothered anyone in her entire life.
A woman who cared little about anything other than herself and the parade of men she got to dote on her while she played the invalid.
I’m not going back to being that person. Not now, not ever. Whoever these new aliens are, they picked the wrong woman to abduct.
For a third time.
I have to be the most unlucky person in the entire universe to end up being abducted by aliens so many damn times. Unlucky or stupid. I’m debating which it is at the moment as I keep my anger at a boil.
The shoulder, or whatever it is I’m slung over, moves. I redouble my efforts in bucking, screaming, and twisting.
It earns my bottom a ringing slap.
Admittedly, I probably shouldn’t have been exploring the neutral sector when I was taken. It’s a supposedly lawless place, but it is supposed to be under Sarkarnii control - the extraordinarily buff aliens who turn into dragons and on whose planet I now reside. I couldn’t even alert my new friends, my fellow alien abductees, the four women who have kept me grounded all this time, because they were all excitedly talking with Kerra about her Sarkarnii mate.
A sob escapes me, a sob which is partly anger and partly fear. I won’t ever forget being taken originally. I won’t forget the terror, the pain, and the relief in finding Maggie, in having another human to talk to.
But I don’t miss Earth, and I don’t miss my mother. If that makes me a bad person, then I’m a bad person.
I also want something horrible to happen to my new captors. Which means, despite the slap on my bum, I don’t desist inmy screaming and writhing. It must have pissed them off, so it means I’m going to continue.
After what seems like a long time, and I’m beginning to exhaust myself, the movement stops, I’m pulled from the shoulder, and for several horrible seconds, I’m weightless before I land with a thump on something soft.
The bag is plucked from my head, only for me to find I still can’t see anything because wherever I am is entirely in the dark.
“Let me go!” I shout around the gag, although it comes out more like “leggmehgoh!”
In the blackness, something slithers. The part of me which still exists in a primal state shivers at the concept of the predator in the dark.
I’m already panting with my previous exertions, my chest heaving, but I’m unable to move due to the bonds at my wrists and ankles. I twist, trying to follow the sound, trying to see my would-be assailant.
Or the creature which will eat me.
But even as my eyes adjust to the velvet night in this place, I still can’t see anything.
“Let me go or I will kill you,” I say around the gag, slowly and carefully, attempting to make my words as clear as possible.
What rasps from the dark is terrifying. Part laugh, part growl, all danger.
Heat and wind whips past me and the gag is snapped away, unfurling from my mouth with a horrible prickling sensation that there is something behind me. Something huge. Something terrifying. The shock is enough to paralyze my vocal cords, my mouth dry.
