If Penny was here, she'd smack me upside the head for taking him on alone.Obviously, this wasn't my best idea, but it was all I could come up with.And Penny and Hope were depending on me.Shaking out my hands to work out my nerves, I forced myself to get back to the plan.
"Step two, bondage."
I grabbed the box of ratchet straps I'd taken from the hardware store and pulled his huge arms together, settling them on his stomach as I looped several straps around his wrists.Doing my best to ignore his truly magnificent abs, I tightened the ratchets as far as I could.The wide yellow straps looked like friendship bracelets on his huge wrists and I prayed they held up when he finally came to.
They were rated for over five thousand pounds.If he broke through them, I was completely screwed.
There was no way I could drag him up into the bed of the truck I'd found, so instead, I carefully backed it up to him and tied the other end of the straps to the convenient metal hooks welded to the frame of the truck.
When everything was as secure as I could make it, I grabbed a warm energy drink from the stash of supplies I'd collected and settled in to wait.He might be bigger and scarier than me, but I had a cattle prod, enough caffeine to kill an elephant and friends to save.
I took a swig from my drink and crossed my arms.This fucker didn't stand a chance.
6 Dargo
For the second timethat day, I opened my eyes and wondered if my skull had a crack in it.At least last time I'd been taken down by an armed syto, not a female half my size.I groaned as I rolled over and tried to get up.My nose smacked into the ground as my bound wrists pulled me up short.
I closed my eyes and resisted the urge to pound my head against the ground in frustration.Vute, I was sick of having my hands tied.
"Hey, Mr.Koolaid," a female voice barked."Can you understand me?"
Turning my head to the side, I squinted up at the red-haired female that had tried to kill me.She loomed over me, a long black stick clutched in one hand as she leaned against a metal vehicle.Her short-cropped hair stood out like a hot brand, and several piercings decorated her face and ears.
From the set of her wiry shoulders, to her bold expression, she looked ready to fight.
I'd seen humans at a distance before, the sytos had been selling them as breeding slaves for years, but I'd never seen one that looked this confident.Even the curly-haired female that Adak claimed had been frozen in fear.This female was eyeing me like a gladiator, taking my measure without an ounce of nerves.
Rolling over, I planted my ass on the hard ground and looked down at my hands.She'd tied my wrists together with thin yellow straps.The bindings were tight and well-wrapped, but even without testing them, I knew I could break them easily.But now that the pounding in my head had eased and I could see no immediate danger, I was reluctant to free myself.
This human female had successfully evaded me all day, lured me into a trap, incapacitated me, and now had me tied to her vehicle.From the look on her face, I figured she was too stupid to be intimidated by me or completely sure she could take me on.
When I'd set out to find her I'd expected to find a cowering human.I'd prepared myself to coddle and coax her into coming with me.I had not expected to be captured by a tiny, determined warrior with fiery hair and a mouth made for kissing.
I was intrigued and a little hard.
"I can understand you," I rolled my shoulders as I met her determined gaze."How can you understand me?"I was fairly certain humans didn't have translator technology yet, but what did I know?
