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look at the strange creatures
who had taken her. They had been kind so far but she didn’t trust
them any more than she trusted the men who had kidnapped her. She
saw what they changed into. She saw them fighting with each other
when she was on the warship. They had been savage in both
forms.
    The golden creatures had been kind but they
had also changed into horrifying shapes with long, dagger-like
teeth and claws. None of them came near her. It was as if they knew
she was terrified of them.
    She had finally just remained in the small
cabin they had given her. She had sat for hours looking out at the
black nothingness and wondering what would become of her.
Eventually, she had stopped caring. Sara came to visit her every
day but even that didn’t brighten Emma’s mood. She was worried
about what would happen to her mother if no one went to visit her.
Was this her punishment for leaving her mom alone to seek out a
life of her own? She had been wrong to think it was better to live
life to the fullest. Her life had been full before only she had
been too short-sighted to appreciate it.
    Emma gasped as a sudden shock hit her
slender body, jerking her out of her private torment. Her head
jerked up and she looked around in confusion. Her body tingled with
a strange awareness that she had never felt before. She felt like
someone had just hit her with a Taser.
    Her blue eyes searched the area, pausing at
the doorway where a tall muscular male stood staring back at her in
equal astonishment. His violet eyes stared at her with an intensity
that made her blush and she had to force her eyes to pull away from
him. Her face flamed as she looked down at her clenched hands.
    Why is he staring at me? She wondered
in confusion. I don’t want him staring at me. What if he comes
near me?
    Panic built at the thought of the huge male
approaching her. She knew there was no way she could escape him. He
looked like he could break her with one hand tied behind his back.
She doubted if she even came up to his chest!
    “Are you alright?” Sara asked, leaning
toward her. “You look flushed.”
    Emma looked at Sara with huge, wary eyes
before she turned away when the large male who was sitting on the
other side of Sara leaned forward to look at her as well. The male
had shown up as they exited their living quarters. Sara had gripped
Emma’s hand so hard when she saw him that there was no way Emma
could have escaped back into their rooms.
    “Does she have need of a healer?” Jaguin
asked, looking at the delicate figure that appeared to shrink into
her seat at his question.
    Sara shook her head. “No, I don’t think so.
Can’t you go sit somewhere else?” She asked testily.
    Jaguin smiled at Sara. “No,” he replied.
    Emma listened as Sara snorted and said
something rude to the male. Her eyes rose just far enough so she
could look to see if the male by the door was still staring at her.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she didn’t see him. Her heart
was just slowing down when the chair beside her pulled away from
the table and someone sat down. She was too busy processing the
strange feelings rushing through her to acknowledge the person. In
the back of her mind, she hoped it was Cara. She had watched as the
perpetually cheerful woman with red and purple hair had been
carried into the room by another enormous male. The tiny woman had
been laughing. Emma loved to listen to Cara’s infectious laugh.
    “What is your name, female?” A dark voice
whispered in her right ear. “I am called Ha’ven.”
    Emma froze as the voice washed through her,
crashing against the wall of ice inside her. She wanted to gasp out
in anger at the feelings that were threatening to awake in a
torrential wave. She wanted to push away from the surge that
threatened to tear down the barricades that she had erected to
protect herself.
    “You are too thin,” Ha’ven continued
harshly. “You need to eat.”
    Emma turned her head when long, slender
fingers held a