Page 78 of Venomous Lust
Then she locked gazes with a Prussian blue set of eyes blazing with fury.
“Hazel!” Khal called out to her, but he was chained by his wrists with Allurium, bolted to the rock of the ground with a chain that seemed made for a creature ten times his size. Around him, four other Eoks stood, stone faced and cold, each armed with an ionic gun. Including Gerkin, this made five Eoks in total.
Where are the rest of them? Where’s the garrison of Garana?
Hazel tried to get up but another figure blocked her.
Tall and wrapped in white, Knut looked like he had just won the lottery. His features radiated satisfaction and a true, deep joy. A joy that could only mean one thing.
Pain was about to follow.
Knut walked over to Hazel, his face assuming a parody of sadness as he knelt in front of her, scrunching his nose like he regretted what he was about to say.
“I’m so sorry to see you end this way, my dear, I truly am.” Knut reached for her hair, rubbing a strand between his fingers. “But you can rest easy in the knowledge that this sacrifice is going to be the key to my plan. In fact, nothing could have been more perfect than your intrusion on the Myrador. Now, the last obstacle to my reign is about to fall. It’s a shame neither you nor your bloodmate will live to see it.”
Knut pulled harshly on the hair still trapped between his fingers. Hazel tried to keep her face from showing pain, but she knew it did. The sickness in his soul gleamed in his eyes as he peered down at her.
“No? Still no scream? How I would have enjoyed breaking you!” Annoyance brimmed in his voice, then regret. His purple eyes turned to Khal. “So, what is it going to be, Commander Khal? Are you ready to contact Prime Councilor Aav and tell her that you have captured me and the bomb? That you’re going to come back aboard the Mother, whose entire crew was tragically killed by the savage Muharee people?”
Silence filled the air as Khal glared at Knut. His Prussian blue eyes gleamed with bloodlust, with a burning hatred, but Khal remained silent.
“No?” Knut’s lips lifted even more. He hadn’t just expected Khal to resist, he wanted him to, just so he could hurt Hazel and feed off both their pain. “Let’s see if you can be persuaded to cooperate, then, shall we?”
Knut took a step back, turning his gaze to Gerkin.
The Commander of Garana approached, a sick gleam in his pale eyes. The Eoks behind him didn’t move, showing no emotion as their commander separated from the group. His pants were stretched by a powerful erection and there was no doubt in Hazel’s mind about what was going to happen.
Gerkin was going to rape her to force Khal into doing his bidding.
Behind Gerkin, Khal roared, his fangs out in full display, his talons digging into the rock. From the side, an Eok lifted his ionic gun.
“No!” Knut lifted his hand imperiously. “I want him to watch as all of you take turns on his bloodmate until she’s nothing but a bleeding bag of flesh. Only after she’s dead can you shoot him, too.”
Hazel’s eyes locked with Khal’s for just as a second. Pain, despair, and a dedication made of pure love passed between them.
Don’t do it.Hazel mouthed the words.Don’t give in.
Then Gerkin was on her. Pain exploded as Gerkin lifted her by her hair and Hazel kicked and screamed wildly. Her eyes ran over the crowd, from Knut’s open grin to the faces of the Eoks. They weren’t expressionless anymore, but wore varied shades of revulsion and shame. Bloodmates were sacred to Eoks and yet, they would allow this to happen to her and Khal.
Even if they fought, the Ilarians outnumbered them overwhelmingly. There were ten thousand of them looking down as she was raped to death.
They would stand there as Gerkin used her. They would watch without curiosity, without arousal, and without guilt.
Khal raged, his wrath a mighty storm under the red sun’s relentless heat. The sounds coming from his throat were alien and feral, the beast inside unleashed at last, fighting to protect what was his. What was his heart and his life.
A stab of pain hit Hazel right between her ribs as she contemplated how much pain Khal would be in as he watched her die.
Gerkin jerked her onto her stomach with a loud growl. Hazel landed hard, her face splitting in pain as her soft flesh met the hot rocks. The world closed around her and lost all light as Gerkin’s body pushed over hers, his arousal digging into her backside, his weight crushing, making it hard to breathe. From her position, she could see that despite Khal’s struggle, the Allurium shackles were not giving any sign of failing.
Then her eyes went to the stone around the anchor securing him. It was cracking under the strain of Khal’s incredible strength, but none of the Eoks seemed to be noticing it. They were all too busy looking at what Gerkin was about to do to her.
He’s going to get free, and then, they’re going to kill him.
Terror spread through her blood, invading each of her cells like oxygen. She ignored the stinging pain from Gerkin’s hold, her eyes refusing to look away from Khal.
Then, somewhere up in the distance, a great commotion sounded, like a thousand insects taking flight at once.
Chirping filled the air as white roots exploded from the rocks below, ready for battle.
