Choosing Riley

Chapter 7-3

Early the next morning, Riley was thinking very unkind thoughts about the healer when he came in to check on her. It was the first time since she had been abducted that she had been able to sleep in, and Mr. Spooky Madman decided he needed to check her arm out. He wanted to check out a little more, but decided against it when Riley kicked him in the balls. She was so not in the mood to be playing doctor and patient with someone who creeped her out. When short, squat, and red leather decided he wanted to do some touchy-feely to her breasts, she had sent him to his knees.

“Yes, sir,” Riley said with a grin as the creepy old man wobbled out of the room. “Reflexes are in perfectly good working condition.” She hopped down off the bed. “Now, time to do a little exploring. You never know if Dr. Dreadula might have something in here that could come in handy for when the boys decide to escape.”

Riley thoroughly searched the small room. There was a medicine cabinet that wasn’t even locked on the far wall that she decided might come in handy. She pulled it open and looked at a wide selection of small injection guns and tiny glass bottles. She tilted her head, but she couldn’t read what the vials said. She pulled all of them out and placed them in her handbag with a shrug.

You never know when you might need something, she thought as she continued searching.

She sat down at the battered desk the man used and opened the top drawer. There was a strange-looking device that looked like some kind of fancy scanning wand and a laser pistol like the one the trader had been wearing when he shot her ass when she tried to run.

Her eyes lit up when she saw it. Being a fully qualified bail bondsman, she was required to have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. It was true that she wasn’t much of a fighter, but she was one hell of a shot! All those years playing the first shooter games at the bar her dear Grandma Pearl worked at paid off big time at the shooting range.

Riley pulled the bottom draw open, and discovered a slim disk. She pulled it out and slid it into the slot on the desk for viewing video. It was a video of some sort. Her eyes widened when she saw Vox. They narrowed into deadly slits when she saw two nude women walking up to him and beginning to undress him. With a hiss, she quickly ejected the disk. She stood up and raised her arm to throw the damn thing against the wall, but had second thoughts when she thought of where else she would like to shove it.

Right down his arrogant, lying, deceitful throat and I hope he chokes on it as it goes down, Riley thought viciously.

The video silenced the little voice that kept saying maybe she should go with him. Maybe she would be the heroine in this movie and not the supporting character that got knocked off. Maybe there was a happily ever after out there for her in the shape of a big sexy cat.

Maybe, my ass, Riley thought bitterly. The only thing out there for you, girlfriend, is heartache if you begin to think things might be different here than back home. Guys are the same wherever the hell you go. They only want one thing, and it isn’t a ring on my finger, but one through my nose.

Riley slid the disk into the zippered pocket of her purse. Maybe they had intergalactic email, or better yet, Intergalatictube. She would post the damn thing on it and let him be the star of his own porn movie. One thing was for sure, she didn’t want any part of his…

“Don’t even go there, Riley St. Claire! You will not think of his stupid you-know-what!” she muttered under her breath as she worked herself up into a fine fury. “It is time for them to get their asses off this rock so I can find me my own spaceship heading back home.”

Riley slammed the drawer shut and walked over to her bright pink suitcase. She tucked the strap of her oversized purse over one shoulder, grabbed the handle of her rolling suitcase with the other, and firmly gripped the pistol she had found in her right hand. It was time to liberate the prisoners of this stupid mine! Riley raised her hand, tossed the massive wave of blond curls over her shoulder, and marched out the door, laser pistol blazing at anything that moved.