Where There is Hope [Taos Wolven Mates 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) Read Online Free Page A

Earth, then you tell me I was unconscious on your ship and your ship, that has a name”—she paused to frown at that—“ deposited us here and we are no longer on my world.”
    She glared at them. “Either way, one of you has to be lying to me. Either we’re on Earth or we aren’t, but I can’t be on Earth and still not on my world.”
    “You are technically on your world, but you are not in your world.”
    “I don’t understand what you mean by that.” She cocked her head. “What do you mean I’m not in my world?”
    Braxton knelt in front of her. It looked as though he intended to rest his hand on her knee, but he pulled it back when she glared at him.
    Hope pressed her lips together. Good! She wanted to give them the impression that if they so much as touched her again, they’d be pulling back a nub.
    “I’m not sure what time we pulled you from, but I can tell you, where we are now, is not nearly so advanced as your world. This is Earth. I promise you, this is Earth, but this is not your time.”
    Hope didn’t say anything to his fantastic tale. She merely looked at him as one brow rose slowly. As if she would ever believe such a tall tale.
    “When our alpha found this place several years ago, we were ecstatic because we found a world with humans who had not advanced as so many others had on other worlds.” Joran moved to kneel in front of her as well. “Almost everyone on our world was happy at the discovery.”
    “Almost everyone?” Hope wanted to hear more. Hell, if she ever got away from these two lunatics, maybe she could write this and make a fortune. Hell, as fantastic as this story was, maybe she’d get lucky and a movie studio would pick it up. She could be a one-book wonder and never have to work again in her lifetime. Then maybe her ex-husband would come crawling back for the money. Not that she’d have him, but it was a nice dream.
    “There are some people on Taos, certain factions who believe that breeding outside our genome is tantamount to bestiality.”
    “Hey!” Leaning forward, Hope grabbed the arms of the chair and squeezed. “You guys are the ones who turn into some kind of strange…thing, not me! If anything, you’re the beasts.”
    “Joran meant no insult, Hope.”
    She crossed her arms over her chest and glared at them. “Just so we have it straight that I am a human being, one hundred percent human.”
    They both smiled at that and stood. Holding out their hands, they both looked down at her. “Would you care to hear the rest of the story as we take you on a tour of our ranch?”
    “Ranch? There aren’t any ranches near Manhattan.” At least there weren’t any that she knew about.
    “We aren’t in New York anymore, Hope. We’re in the Dakota Territory.”
    No way! How could they be anywhere but New York? She hadn’t been out for more than a few minutes. “North or South Dakota?” Crap . She didn’t really expect them to tell her the truth. How was she supposed to get away from these lunatics if she didn’t even know where in the heck she was?”
    “Right now, in this time, where we are on the North American continent is called the Dakota Territory. I’m not sure I know what you mean by North or South Dakota,” Braxton said as they both reached down and took her hands, pulling her to her feet.
    “Weren’t North and South Dakota admitted as the thirty-ninth and fortieth states in the mid-to-late eighteen-eighties?” Neither history nor geography was her strong suit in school, but she did remember researching something for her ex on western expansion.
    “We have no idea, Hope,” Joran said as he and Braxton moved to pull her toward the back of the house. “We weren’t in your time long enough to check the historical trivia of the territory.”
    When Hope realized they were headed deeper into the house, she stopped walking and pulled back. She wasn’t just going to let them drag her into a bedroom. She wasn’t stupid.
    “I don’t think so,