Page 25 of Angel Unchained

I bent my knees fast at the same time grabbing both his hands and yanking down hard. As soon as his claws were a hair from my throat, I thrust a backward fist into his groin. He doubled over. I followed up with an elbow and clipped him under the chin.

Then Knox plunged into the guard and he tumbled across the stone floor. The sound of flesh tearing and fists pounded echoed for a few agonizing seconds. I couldn’t tell what was happening in the fury of fists.

Bright blood splattered across the stone wall and my heart stopped.

“Knox!” I cried, rushing up.

Behind me, a Roulex plowed into me. The leader of this group who I had knocked out with the submission pose. His knee was in my back and his claws digging into my arms as he held me still.

I blinked back tears, my throat raw, as I stared at Knox laying on the cell floor, unmoving.

“Knox,” I choked out as the other Roulex stood over him.

It pulled out one of those thick needle things like they’d given me.

“Hurry, do it before his body heals itself,” the one holding me shoved his knee further into my back. Its tail holding my legs down. “Then we make him and his woman pay for each injury they’ve done to our kind. And this one will be pregnant before sunrise.”

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