Page 55 of I Married Kayog

He gasped and attempted to take it back from me, but I flapped my wings again, flying backward to the opposite side of the bed.

“Stay the fuck away from him!” I yelled, the blaster trained on the doctor.

He stopped dead in his tracks, a couple of feet away from the bed.

“Back away, or I’ll blow your fucking head off!” I shouted.

“Ms. Kenna! Give me that weapon!” Agent Murphy said, her voice tense as she extended a hand towards me and slowly advanced.

“Get them both out of here and send in a nurse to put him in stasis, now!” I snarled.

My heart dropped when the blue doctor yanked his arm free of the male Enforcer, who was still holding him. Hand raised, some sort of syringe held in his fist, he lunged for Kayog. I didn’t hesitate and shot him in the chest. Shouts erupted all around, and a violent spasm shook Kayog. His screams grew louder. My heart broke as I realized my efforts to protect him were creating even more emotional chaos that had to be destroying him.

A couple of humans—a man and a woman—burst into the room, alerted by the ruckus, only to freeze at the sight of the scene before them. The woman rushed to the blue doctor on the floor.

“Take her out!” the green doctor yelled at the Enforcers while pointing an angry finger at me. “She’s insane.”

I opened my mouth to answer, but Kayog interrupted me.

“Kill me… Lin… Linsea. Kill me,” he pleaded.

“NO! Kayog, no!” I exclaimed, my voice broken with tears as I turned my attention back to him.

“Free me. I… I can’t. Make it stop. Please. Kill me.”

“No! My love, no. You have to hang on. For me, for us. I will fix it.”

“Please…”

Movement at the edge of my vision had me jerking my head back up. The green Temern had taken the syringe from his fallen companion and was approaching the bed.

“Put that down and get away from him!” I shouted, pointing the blaster at him.

“You heard him!” the green doctor said. “He requested it! You have no authority—”

He dodged just as I was firing at him, throwing himself sideways and crashing against a rolling tray, which thankfully was empty.

“YOU, PUT HIM IN FUCKING STASIS NOW!” I yelled at the human male standing near the door.

Judging by his uniform, he was either a nurse or a doctor, but undoubtedly a medical professional.

Although visibly frightened, he approached hastily, his eyes flicking between me, my blaster, and Kayog screaming in agony. Shaking, the man started tapping instructions on the medical device next to the bed. The blue doctor began to stir as the stun from my blaster shot started wearing off.

However, it was the genuine terror emanating from the green doctor that threw me off. He was terrified of Kayog and truly believed that if we didn’t kill him immediately, something terrible would happen.

“My dove…” Kayog said, his voice broken.

Tears welled in my eyes when I glanced down at him. Beyond the atrocious pain destroying him, it was the look of betrayal he cast my way that wrecked me.

“Kill me.”

“I can’t. I’m not losing you. You fought too long, too hard to give up now. Please, hang on for me. I swear we will fix you.”

My blood turned to ice when his eyes and hands began to glow. It was a white light, but it looked red around his eyes as blood began to trickle from them again.

“We’re all going to die,” the green doctor whispered in a terrified voice as he started backing away.

The glow intensified, and in that instant, I realized that whatever was happening with Kayog was what they’d beentrying to prevent from the start… what they believed would kill us all.