Lion Man's Captive by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humor, terraforming, funny situations, adventure horror, alien colonization, catlike aliens, intergalactic incident, lighthearted romp, romantic near future urban fantasy comedy, steamy human alien romance
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Anya was ready to drop by the time Aidan stopped to rest. She’d muttered complaints for a while—for all the good it did. She doubted he would’ve paid her any attention if he’d been able to understand, but since he didn’t the complaining served no purpose at all beyond relieving some of her frustration.

Like the cussing.

She wasn’t prone to it. She rarely let her frustrations get the better of her. Somehow ‘shoot’ and ‘dog-gone-it’ didn’t seem powerful enough to vent the sort of emotions she’d been experiencing lately, though.

She was still uncomfortable that she’d used the ‘f’ word and he’d picked up on it—partly because she was worried that he might be really pissed off if and when he ever figured out what that word was.

Beyond taking her captive, though, he hadn’t seemed threatening. She still thought it would be wise to ditch him at the first opportunity. She didn’t know what his plans were for her after all and she didn’t think it would be anything good considering his people had invaded Earth.

She was keenly aware of not being equipped either physically, mentally, or otherwise to survive on her own, though. She didn’t have a weapon, any supplies—like water and food or even clothing that would protect her from the elements. And beyond that, she hadn’t seen a living soul, of her own kind, since she’d seen the people that had been in the cars heading for the hills.

Well, actually, the flatlands because the hills were the other way.

For all she knew she was the last human left.

She didn’t believe that. She couldn’t believe that. There had to be other people out there. She just needed to find them.

On foot, particularly since she was barefoot, that seemed an almost impossible feat. Even before the bug-things that seemed like they would eat everything and the monster bugs and the huge monster beasts, if she’d been stranded in the woods like she was now, she could’ve wandered for days or maybe weeks without finding another living soul. With all those things out there and nothing to eat or drink or protect herself with—when everybody that was left was probably hiding—she didn’t think her chances were good at all.

It occurred to her that there was one surefire, or maybe surefire, way of getting Aidan out of his clothes, but she wouldn’t be a lot better off with his clothes and boots and the little bit of rations he had in his pockets. And that was assuming he wasn’t in any condition to fight her for the stuff afterwards and she didn’t see how she could count on that without making some kind of plan to bash him over the head or otherwise incapacitate him.

It dawned on her abruptly that, as far she knew, he didn’t have a weapon of any kind on him.

What kind of invader invaded a place without weapons?

Was she completely wrong about his purpose in being here?

But how likely was it that those things would arrive and start

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