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less dangerous than being out for the count…helpless and even more
vulnerable.
    “No.
That’s okay. I think I’d rather stay awake for whatever is going to happen. I’m
not a fan of checking out of situations, especially ones where I’m being taken
away on a space ship by aliens.”
    Abruptly
Taso let go of her hand and stood. He crossed to the little window, looked out
for a minute, then slid the metal back over the opening. For a long minute he
stood with his back to her. Without turning, he spoke.
    “I
came along on this mission for one reason only. To find a mate. A woman with
warrior spirit, but who won’t insist on being on the battlefield…” She heard
him breath out a sigh. “I want a woman to fight through the path of life with
me, but not on the battlefield. A strong warrior who will bear my children, and
help ensure the survival of my Clan. I want strength of mind, body, and of
spirit.”
    When
he turned, his eyes had darkened, looking almost black as he gazed at her. Her
breath went shallow and fast, and she swallowed hard. Somewhere along the line,
she’d started noticing little details, the scars, the dark eyes and black
brows. But she’d never put all those details together. She did now: the black
hair shot with silver in the front. Obviously the scars…there were others on
his back that ran in cross-crosses over his skin. The width of his shoulders,
the narrowness of his hips. She swallowed again. This was crazy. Admiring a man
who’d kidnapped her was wrong. It was easier to chalk all that up to the drugs
in her system.
    “And
you have that, Max. You have the strength I’m looking for. For a mate, and for
my Clan.” One brow twitched up. “You are a pleasure to look at. And I would
imagine back on your Planet, you were a formidable opponent to fight.”
    She
wasn’t really sure how to answer that. She was still certain he was crazy, and
that all of this was some really huge mistake, or misunderstanding. Or a really
elaborate practical joke. Or she’d wake up and discover it really was a bad
dream.
    “Clan.”
She wasn’t why that word surfaced, but she didn’t understand what he was
talking about.
    He
looked at her, then nodded. She went on.
    “You
keep saying Clan. Like what kind of Clan? Native American or…a religious sect,
or something?”
    “My
Clan…the Lethian Clan?”
    It
was her turn to nod, still confused. He went on.
    “We’re
not Native Americans…whatever those are. Nor are our Clans based in religion.
We are shifters, all of us, every Clan. Ours is ursine. I think you humans call
them…bears.”

Chapter
Five
    A
wave of dizziness made everything in the room spin. This was too much; she’d
maybe, just maybe, gotten it through her head that she’d been abducted by
aliens. Now, Taso was trying to tell her he was a… she thought he’d said… bears?
    “A
what? The thing with the bear…tell me that again?”
    “A
shifter.” The tone of his voice told her that this was common knowledge, that
everyone knew who and what shifters were. “We shift from this form into another.”
    “You
shift.” That made no sense, grammatically, functionally, in any way. “I have no
idea what that even means. And when you add a bear into that, you’ve lost me.
Completely.”
    He
hesitated, then sat back down beside her. Clearly he was intrigued, if not a
little bemused. “You have nothing like that in your world?”
    She
shook her head. “Not in the least. I mean, yes, we have bears, but not…
shifters. Unless you count sci-fi movies and books. But it’s all fiction. It is
fiction, right?”
    “In
your world, maybe. In mine, it is normal.”
    “And
by shift…you mean you change into something else? A bear?” The man was
seriously telling her he could change into a bear.
    “Yes.”
It was said matter-of-factly. “My Clan is a bear Clan.”
    “So,
if you’re a bear Clan, then what are the other Clans? The ones you fight with.”
Saying the words felt a little strange,