Page 58 of Bound By Lust (Sinful Seven #2)
The moment Lord Lust moves, the ground erupts in fire and I don’t even think he realizes it. I’d heard tales of the Demon Kings growing up and have revered them as gods, and I see now why…
I waste no time rushing into the house, shifting into my armor, sneering at the ward placed here.
It’s old and nasty, drawn in forbidden ancient magic that even the demon kings forbade, but whoever set this up for Tek did a poor job.
I cut through them with a whisper of elvish language and slip inside like breath through cracks, but fucking immediately I wish I hadn’t…
The smell was horrible outside, but inside it’s fucking putrid. Flesh hanging in the open with flies and maggots crawling on them, rotting skulls with eyeball hanging out of the socket, and half sawed off body parts. The destruction in this place…
Slowly, I creep through the house, trying not to disturb anything and solely focused on getting to Jessica.
This house, though small, feels infinite.
I look through a couple of rooms, but I find nothing but rotting bodies, cleaned bones, and shit I don’t care to name. Where the fuck are you, Jessica?
I can sense her, but I can’t tell the direction she’s in.
This house is like a fucking funhouse maze.
Due to some odd magic, I can open the same door twice, and the second go around it will lead to a different room.
I panic, heart racing, but I try to calm down.
Think like you’re on the field… focus… focus…
LISTEN… even if a speck of dust hit her… I need to feel it…
“JESSSSICAAAAA! WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?! SAY SOMETHING! CALL ME AN ASSHOLE!!!”
Nothing… shit!. What do I do? What do I…
“JESSICA PLAYS FOOTBALL LIKE SHIT! DID YOU HEAR ME?! GIRLS CAN’T PLAY FOOTBALL! THEY SHOULD JUST PLAY WITH BARBIE DOLLS AND SPREAD THEIR L?—
“DUVAL?! WHEN I GET OUTTA HERE I’MA BEAT YO MOTHER FUCKING ASS, YOU LIMP DICK MOTHER FUCKER!”
There! I turn to the door at the far end, opening it, but nothing. Fuck… but I know heard her voice from here…
“OH YEAH?! YOU SAY THAT BUT YOU HIT LIKE A BITCH! AND YOU THROW LIKE A TODDLER!” I call out, listening intently when I hear a growl and chains rattling.
“ON GOD, I SWEAR I FUCKING HATE MEN! I HATE ALL Y’ALL WEIRD SONS OF BITCHES!” Deeper in. I run forward, sawed off torsos be damned, going through another door that’s a nightmarish kitchen. Blood and guts everywhere… but the fucked up part is there are goblins eating guts.
When they notice, they lunge for me, but I swipe them down with ease, severing their bodies in half… this is light work compared to a fucking Wendigo… I wipe the blood from my face and listen intently…
“YOU DICK IN THE BOOTY, BOOGER-FACED, STANK brEATH ASS…” It’s hard to hold back a smirk because she still going off.
It’s no wonder Tek and I fell out for her.
She’s fiery and brilliant, but badass. I listen to her rant, and I groan happily, at least knowing she’s safe enough to feel she can go off loudly like this.
Tek chose to become her friend, and I chose to distance myself.
I could never be friends with the girl I like…
it would be torture, but he chose that route and look where it got him.
While I admired from a distance, he kept pining like a lovesick fool.
When I saw she was taken, I didn’t care.
I still wanted her, until I realized who claimed her… it was a death wish.
I left the seventh hell’s Mother Tree for freedom. Having lived as long as I have, life has been boring, but when I first saw American football on the dragon orb, I felt excited. After meeting Tek, my first human friend, and then Jessica, my first human crush, I felt happy and alive… but now…
I shake my head, not wanting to think more about it.
Humans are very ambiguous creatures and even though I try to step into their minds and banter like them, I still don’t understand fully, but it’s fun.
I manifest my spear, getting closer to her, going through another door, expecting to see something grotesque once more, but there she is…
There… on an old metal bed bolted to the floor with thick, rusted cuffs around her wrists and feet that are also bolted to the walls with thick heavy screws. I see there was no way for her to escape, even with her tenacity. But she doesn’t look up until I speak.
“Jess?!”
She gasps, jerks back, then freezes and cocks her head to the side with narrowed eyes.
“Duval?!” I nod as her eyes dart over my face, taking me in. I know I look unnatural in my kin-form. Exaggerated height, darkened hair and long, pointed ears, but she doesn’t scream. She just takes me in as I make wide steps to go over to her, wasting no time.
“I’m getting you out.” I draw my spear from my back and slam it against the chain.
CLANG.
Jessica flinches at the sparks it creates, but nothing happens. Fuck! My eyes narrow at the chains.
“What the hell?!”
“WHAT THE FUCK AM I STARING IN AWE FOR?! TEK! TEK TURNED INTO SOMETH-THING AND HE SAID HE WAS GOING T-T-TO EAT ME! AND FRANK! I WAS SURPRISED TO… SURPRISED FRANK AND….” she panics understandably, but it’s weird seeing the always cool calm and collected Jessica Hurts flustered.
However, even in this situation, she has not a single tear in her eyes.
She’s a true warrior. “HEY… DUVAL! I KNOW YOU HEAR ME! SAY SOMETHING! HOW DID YOU FIND ME?! IS FRANK WITH YOU?! HE’S GOT TO BE W?—”
CLANG.
I try again, gritting my teeth and slicing again. Sparks fly, but still nothing.
“This metal is not from this plane,” I mutter to myself. Something isn’t right… “Laquered with some sort of fae curse.. where the fuck would Tek get something lik?—”
BOOM.
The wall beside us explodes. Wood splinters, stone cracks, and debris flies everywhere as Tek crashes through the house, body smoking, roaring with pain.
“SSSSKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
I lose my focus for a second and a huge bolder falls just an inch from smashing into Jessica’s face. I whip out my spear to slice it, but before I can, Tiny Frank comes in and kicks it, making it crumble into literal dust before he zooms back over to Jessica, hugging her tight…
“What the fuck…?” she gasps.
“Hey, Doodoo! I fucking told you to keep her safe!” I hear, and when the smoke clears, Jessica gasps.
“F-Frank…? No… two Franks… a tiny one and a demon one… so it really wasn’t the weed?” she murmurs.
Horns arched like a god of war. His tail flares and steams, eyes glowing red, body covered in black veins that pulsate red with every beat of his heart. He floats in the air with huge black wings that flap rhythmically. Even from here, I can feel the power around him…
Jessica doesn’t move. I can’t even hear her breathing.
She just stares and when Milord glances down at her, his anger flares.
His eyes slowly and methodically take in every inch of her, and it’s as if the air is sucked out of the forest itself.
The trees scream in fear, the birds scatter, and all other animals flee.
The real predator is here and pissed. He cuts his eyes over to Tek, who seems to have gained some sense, and the rotten, human side of him shivers.
“Oh you done fucked up!” he roars and the ground trembles as the air thickens with hate. Fuck… I know Jessica’s scared! I look over to her, knowing I’m for the first time going to see tears, hating it. She’s such a strong girl, but to be put in this fucked up situation is horrible.
I close my eyes, ready for the waterworks, finding the right human words to comfort her and sighing.
“It’s okay, Je?—”
“KICK HIS MOTHER FUCKING ASS! THAT BASTARD SAID HE WAS GONNA EAT ME!
“KNOCK HIS MOTHER FUCKING HEAD FROM HIS SKULL, BABY! WHHHOOOOOOOO!” I look at her, confused because the girl practically has stars in her eyes. No… her pupils have turned to literal hearts when she stares up at the Demon King of Lust as if the sun and moon rises and falls with him…
“Oh don’t worry, Little Baby. Daddy’s got you. Trust.”
“Oooookay! Duval, hurry the hell up! You not about to have me out here looking like Sakura in the Chunin exams’ forest of death!
Get these mother fucking chains off me!” she sneers at me and I sigh, shaking my head.
Tek, we never even stood a chance… I think to myself and grin, going back to clanging on the chains. Damn… he’s one lucky king.