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or killed us by now. Plus, we've been here for almost a week, and you have to admit, he's treated us better than expected."
    Kari did have a point, but the fact remained they were captives, slaving for a man they didn't know, and quite frankly, Jordan couldn't stand. It didn't matter that she found him strangely attractive. She hated his arrogance and the way his gray stare followed her wherever she went, as though she were his possession.
    "If being tied to the ass-end of a horse isn't torture, I don't know what is," Jordan muttered, beating the leather against a rock. "Look at my wrists...I'm scarred for life!"
    "Jordan, you'll destroy those pants if you keep doing that."
    "Good," she replied with a satisfied smile, giving them another hard slap.
    The brave watched her, his stone-cold expression still in place, his eyes narrowed in warning. He wasn't much older than her, and Jordan had considered using her feminine charms on him, but knew it was probably useless since he was loyal to Gray Hawk. The boy followed the older warrior around like a puppy.
    "And you must admit that Gray Hawk seems like a well-respected member of the tribe," Kari said with something akin to pride in her voice. "From what Tawanka says, he is the bravest of all their warriors."
    Jordan rolled her eyes. Obviously their captor had charmed Kari into believing he was something other than what he was. "Don't forget that my parents were killed by savages just like him. If you expect me to defend him, I won't. I want to get as far away from him as I possibly can."
     Kari opened her mouth, but hesitated a moment before saying, "Tawanka says he took us to replace the loss of his aunt and her friend. Apparently the last white captive who was taken by the tribe was Gray Hawk's mother. She was just about our age, traveling with her husband when he died along the trail. Gray Hawk's father found her, brought her to the village, and in time they fell in love. He married her and they seemed happy. Yet after she had Gray Hawk, she missed the life she once led so much that one night she escaped. His father was completely devastated. I guess she didn't say goodbye to anyone, not even Gray Hawk."
    "You'd think they would have found her?" Jordan said, fighting off the momentary sympathy she felt for her captor.
    "I guess he didn't even go after her."
    Although Jordan felt bad for the boy who had lost his mother, she could certainly understand why his mother had left. Being away from civilization all those years would be horrible. Jordan shivered at the thought. Days in captivity was bad enough, but years away was too much to even comprehend.
    Surely Gray Hawk didn't intend to keep them here forever. But what did she really know about him? Their captor always kept her guessing. He was so mysterious, and if there was one thing that truly irritated her, it was his behavior toward Kari, versus his behavior with her. With Kari he smiled easily and seemed relaxed. But when it came to Jordan, she realized he hated her because he never smiled, and when he did talk to her, his voice was gruff and clipped as though he was constantly irritated with her.
    She refused to think that the feeling consuming her might be jealousy, yet every time Gray Hawk flashed Kari one of his rare smiles, Jordan felt compelled to slap him. And even more frustrating was the fact that more and more she found herself looking for him, and then there was the way her heart raced and she felt all flushed when he was around. It was disconcerting to say the least--particularly since she'd never felt that way for anyone else, most of all, an Indian.
     A splash of cold water hit Jordan in the face, bringing her out of her musings. "Come on, don't be so serious all the time."
    Jordan wiped the water from her eyes and turned to Kari, who was grinning at her. "How can you be so content? I don't understand