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Ornix

“I hate you! You took my life on Earth. You took my wings. You took my freedom and now you’re knocking me up whether I want a baby or not. You’re a monster and I hate you!” She yells at me like a petulant child.

I want to spank her all over again. I want to take her over my knee and spank her bare ass until she realizes that she is acting like a little brat. There is nothing mature about this behavior. Nothing rational. She is simply throwing a tantrum because she is afraid.

One of the facets of my mate being much shorter than me is the fact that I can see Equinox smirking in the background right now, taking great satisfaction in having his words come out of her mouth. I do not know what power he has over her, but I do not like the influence.

“You do not hate me. You do not want wings, and the only thing you have been deprived of is a boring, pedestrian life that could never have amounted to a fraction of what you now experience.You’ve lived more in the two days you’ve been here than you have in years. Admit it.”

“I admit nothing.”

Oh, she truly is being petulant. Equinox is infecting her somehow. His mere presence seems to embolden her into an absolute brat. When I had her on her own, she was not like this, I tell myself.

“I hate you! I hate this! I want my wings back!”

“They were a bloody mess, and you know it. They nearly killed you. Stop being so emotional. You’re being absolutely unmanageable.”

“I don’t care. I’m giving up. I tried to be good, and all it got me was a fucked-up abduction.”

“You’re tired and you’re emotional, and…”

“I hate this!” She screams the words at me, so loudly and intensely I hear her voice tear as she cries out. “Let Equinox out! He’s the only one who doesn’t want anything from me, and who wants the best for me.”

“He put you in danger.”

“You put me in danger. You want to use my body to breed your dragon army. This is fucked up and you know it.”

She’s going to yell at me until she gets her way. I can already tell that is clearly her strategy. It will not work. Spoiled, shouting little brats only earn themselves another trip over my knee.

“I really thought you had learned,” I tell her. “I am the master of this realm, and everything that happens in it. You have no say inwhat I do to you, or what I decide you will endure. You are being bred because you belong to me.”

“You’re psychotic. You’re an absolute monster. Equinox was right.”

“Maybe he was. Maybe he is. That changes nothing, Melissa. You are my human mate. Your duty is to bear my whelps.”

Melissa

“Fuck your whelps,” I curse.

I’m going to get Equinox out of the dungeon and I’m going to escape. There’s no way I’m going to stay here and be meekly bred like an animal.

Ornix lifts a brow at me. “Now I know you are being ridiculous. You are just as eager to bear my progeny as I am to have you birth it.”

“How the fuck would you know that? You’ve never asked. You just took me and fucked me and told me I was going to make you babies. Well, maybe I don’t want to!”

He looks truly puzzled, like one of his shoes just grew a mouth and started talking back to him. I’m not supposed to have opinions about this, especially not inconvenient ones.

“Stop being such a spoiled little wretch and accept the blessings that have been bestowed on you.”

His voice is rough and harsh. There is little warmth in it. Only domination. Pure ownership.

I think at some point, I might have been starting to fall in love with him. Now? Now I want to get back to the human world even more than before. Equinox had to talk me through the first time. He won’t have to next time.

And then this all gets considerably worse.

“There is one other thing,” he says, his tone tight. “The seal. Where is it?”

I shrug. “I don’t know. I must have dropped it.”