“Help!” Her shrieking voice pierces the air.
I kick Eneko to get him away from my mate, but he shoves me across the room. Splinters slide into my thighs as I slam into the wall. More shouting comes from the outside.
My chest tightens. The pair of guards who watch over the path to the slave pens are here.
Ra’Sa seethes, his eyes glowing in time with the stone glowing in his chest. He removes himself from Eneko’s grip with ease. His fist slams into Eneko’s jaw.
The foreman grabs him, pulling my mate’s arms behind his back.
Ra’Sa cries out as the guards arrive. They thrust spears in his face. I see the rage boiling there, but naked and exposed, he pauses. Then he looks over at me.
I’m going to kill them. Nothing will happen to you. Please, trust me.
And he surrenders.
I suck in a sharp breath.
"Take him to the slave pens,” Eneko fumes, wiping blood from the corner of his mouth. “Scare the slaves shitless, and then kill him.”
He turns back to me, "You'll pay for this, human bitch."
Chapter 36
MELISA
NOTE: There is a serious trigger warning in this chapter. It beginsimmediatelyand you will see a ** when it ends.
"Please Eneko," I beg, shaking with the cold as he stomps over to where I am curled up against the wall.
Ra'Sa bellows outside.
The sound slices through me, tearing apart my heart.
It was too soon. Finally, I had tasted love. I'd found exactly what I was looking for. I almost got it all.
Eneko rips me away from the wall. I scratch at his skin with my fingernails. Flesh tears, and blood pools across his shoulders and neck, but he laughs.
"I've spent weeks waiting for you. I wet my cock on some whore in the mines. The whole time, I was waiting to be back to this room. I return and find you betraying me. You'll regret this every day that I let you draw breath into your lungs."
His spittle rains over my face and then he throws me onto the bed, hard enough for my head to crack against the wall. I cry out as I’m laid bare before him. I grasp for anything, wishing Ihad the stone knife that Hibsej stole from me. There is nothing within reach.
Eneko's hand hits the mattress next to my head. Some of his blood drips on my unclad shoulder, and I flinch as his other hand presses my other shoulder down into the bed.
I kick, ramming my foot into his balls.
He grunts, pressing down harder. Too hard. My body bends under his weight, and something pops near my collarbone. A flood of pain rushes through me.
"Ra'Sa!" I scream.
Eneko slaps me, then covers my mouth with his hand.
"Enough. Be still, or I will kill your family."
Every attack halts in place, and I lie there, helpless.
He reaches for his pants.
"Fucking whores,” he mutters as he pulls on his ties.