Page 121
Story: Fawn
Out of the corner of my eye, I see his hairline shimmering like he is trying to shift.
Shivers wrack me.So cold.My thoughts become a jumble as Crael drags me onto my back, the rough stone floor scraping painfully over my naked flesh. I fight, kicking out my legs, mind lost to a slow churn of my disbelief that this is happening.
“Very few shifters, wolf or otherwise, can escape bindings placed on their human form by shifting—my stag can,”Eiden told me on the very first day I arrived.“He is indomitable and sees everything as a threat…”
They think the bindings will contain him and that they have him trapped.
But he is not. His stag is powerful, more powerful even than Seven and Nox. He is feral. No binding can hold him back.
Why has he not already shifted?
Crael leans down over me, taking a long lick up the side of my throat.
“Eiden!”
A terrifying new understanding blooms.
“Eiden, please!”
Another lick that makes me shudder and thrash.
“I cannot!”
I sob, feeling his conflict and anguish in those words. He does not trust his stag. He thinks he will hurt me, maybe kill me, if he unleashes him, so he holds that part of him in check.
Were I not here, he could save himself.
His twin insinuates his knees between my thighs with terrifying ease. With my wrist pinned cruelly to the stone floor, my weak struggles are nothing to him.
My vulnerability is absolute.
“You can, Eiden!”
“Shut up, bitch,” Crael growls. He slaps the side of my face. The blow rattles my skull against the hard floor and leaves me clinging to consciousness by a thread.
I taste blood and defeat.
Survive.
I can survive anything, even this.
“You’ve made your point,” Eiden says, a dark edge to his voice I have never heard before. “Let her go!”
“Fuck you, brother,” one of those standing snarls. “You killed our father. Sent us all into exile. Do you think anything you have to say will deter us from defiling your mate? Not a fucking chance. When we’re done, your king will give up a pretty penny for his ruined queen. She’ll be no more than a broken shell by then. But he’ll pay it anyway. He could tear Wormwood apart brick by brick and never find us. We’ll be long gone by then, living in luxury on the other side of the Lumen Sea while your remains rot in this cell.”
I cry out as his brother squeezes my breast roughly.
“LET HER GO!” Eiden’s voice is like a clap of thunder, but it only stirs the brothers into hoots and cackles, well pleased that their games gain a reaction from my chained mate.
“Hurt her.” Marigold calls. “Use her. I want to see her bloody by the time you’re done.”
“Eiden, please,” I beg. “I trust you. I believe in you. I believe in your stag. He won’t hurt me; I know he won’t. Set him free. Let him have his revenge.”
Another blow sends me into darkness briefly, but I shake it away.
Eiden’s next roar is full of pain and anguish.
“Eiden,” I sob, the blood pooling in my mouth, making the words slurred. “I love you. I’d rather you killed me than let this monster hurt me. Only I know you won’t.”
Table of Contents
- Page 1
- Page 2
- Page 3
- Page 4
- Page 5
- Page 6
- Page 7
- Page 8
- Page 9
- Page 10
- Page 11
- Page 12
- Page 13
- Page 14
- Page 15
- Page 16
- Page 17
- Page 18
- Page 19
- Page 20
- Page 21
- Page 22
- Page 23
- Page 24
- Page 25
- Page 26
- Page 27
- Page 28
- Page 29
- Page 30
- Page 31
- Page 32
- Page 33
- Page 34
- Page 35
- Page 36
- Page 37
- Page 38
- Page 39
- Page 40
- Page 41
- Page 42
- Page 43
- Page 44
- Page 45
- Page 46
- Page 47
- Page 48
- Page 49
- Page 50
- Page 51
- Page 52
- Page 53
- Page 54
- Page 55
- Page 56
- Page 57
- Page 58
- Page 59
- Page 60
- Page 61
- Page 62
- Page 63
- Page 64
- Page 65
- Page 66
- Page 67
- Page 68
- Page 69
- Page 70
- Page 71
- Page 72
- Page 73
- Page 74
- Page 75
- Page 76
- Page 77
- Page 78
- Page 79
- Page 80
- Page 81
- Page 82
- Page 83
- Page 84
- Page 85
- Page 86
- Page 87
- Page 88
- Page 89
- Page 90
- Page 91
- Page 92
- Page 93
- Page 94
- Page 95
- Page 96
- Page 97
- Page 98
- Page 99
- Page 100
- Page 101
- Page 102
- Page 103
- Page 104
- Page 105
- Page 106
- Page 107
- Page 108
- Page 109
- Page 110
- Page 111
- Page 112
- Page 113
- Page 114
- Page 115
- Page 116
- Page 117
- Page 118
- Page 119
- Page 120
- Page 121 (Reading here)
- Page 122
- Page 123
- Page 124
- Page 125
- Page 126
- Page 127
- Page 128
- Page 129
- Page 130
- Page 131
- Page 132
- Page 133
- Page 134
- Page 135
- Page 136
- Page 137
- Page 138
- Page 139
- Page 140
- Page 141
- Page 142
- Page 143
- Page 144