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her like one.
    She was naked, though, and Tariq’s
question had unnerved her when she’d asked if she was free to
leave. ‘Where would she go?’ Somehow, she thought it wasn’t a
reference to the fact that she couldn’t remember where she
belonged. It had seemed … ominous somehow.
    Shaking the thought and the sick
feeling that began to churn in her belly, she got up decisively to
test whether or not she was a prisoner. The door opened the moment
she approached it. Gathering the sheet more tightly around herself,
she stepped into the corridor and looked around. Since she hadn’t
seen anything the way they’d come when they’d left the treatment
room—or whatever it was—she headed off in the opposite
direction.
    The corridor seemed endless. It was a
while before she noticed that there were doors leading off of the
corridor. Closed, they formed a nearly invisible seam against the
surrounding walls. She hesitated when she reached the next, but
since it occurred to her that it was quite possibly someone’s
private quarters, she decided not to test the theory.
    She’d been moving along the corridor
for perhaps twenty to thirty minutes when it abruptly dawned on her
that she had no idea how to get back to the room where they’d taken
her. Dismayed, she stopped, turning to look back in the direction
she’d come from. A very little consideration convinced her that she
was committed to her quest. She really had no choice at this point
but to continue to look if for no other reason than she was
lost.
    She reached a branch in the corridor a
few minutes later and debated whether to stay with the corridor
she’d been following or try the one that branched off at a tangent.
She saw what appeared to be a row of windows further along the
branch, however, and that decided the matter.
    Moving a little more quickly, she
hurried along the corridor until she reached the first and
discovered it was just as she’d suspected, a view port. A wave of
shock and horror swept over her when she saw the view,
however.
    She was too shocked for many minutes
to actually assimilate what she was looking at and too distressed
even when she had to throw off her shock. The first indication she
had that she was no longer alone was when a hand settled on her
shoulder. Jumping, she whirled instinctively, clamping a hand on
the wrist attached to the hand on her shoulder and whipping his arm
behind his back. She didn’t get the chance to finish executing the
maneuver that should have put him on the floor. He followed,
flowing easily with her movements and using her grip on his wrist
to jerk her against his length and bind her in an unbreakable
hold.
    “ So … you are
military.”
    Emerald twisted her head around to
look up and back at her captor. There was no relief in discovering
it was Tariq. “Let me go,” she said through teeth clenched to hide
just how shaken she was.
    His brows rose at the demand, but his
grip slackened. Emerald whirled away from him immediately, bending
to snatch up the sheet she’d dropped and whipping it around herself
shakily before she confronted him. “That isn’t Earth!” she said
angrily, pointing a shaking finger toward the window. “We aren’t on
Earth! I don’t know where the hell we are, but that isn’t
Earth!”

Chapter Two
    Tariq eyed her
assessingly. “It isn’t the Earth you once knew, but it is Earth,” he said
finally.
    It wasn’t! He was lying, damn him! She
knew he had to be. Without another word, she whipped around, intent
on racing down the corridor in search of a route of escape. He
caught up to her before she’d even managed to accelerate to an all
out run, snagging her around the waist. She whirled on him, her
survival instincts at the fore, intent upon fighting her way to
freedom if necessary.
    Unfortunately, she’d already given
away her hand in the previous encounter. He was ready for her and
he was not only far bigger and stronger, he was amazingly fast for
a being that was big