Penny awoke on a floor and blinked. She stared up at the curved ceiling, the very unfamiliar ceiling. It didn't take her long to remember her encounter with Reg, the big, blue alien who'd abducted her. She also remembered he'd injected her with some kind of sleeping agent, the jerk.
Sitting up, she gaped down at herself-her very naked self. Her first thought wasn't who'd undressed her and why but, Don't tell me he probed me and I wasn't awake for it. Just thinking he might have touched her made her blush, but there was no denying she was curious about her rescuer, scientifically, of course. As a woman possessed of a logical mind, she knew love and like and those other curious emotions people ascribed to were nothing more than a chemical reaction in the brain caused by a desire for the human race to band together for protection and procreation.