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“I didn’t call them,” she squeaked, seeming to realize she was trapped. “I … couldn’t afford to be shut down. We need themoney.Ineed the money, I guess. We would have gone under if we closed down for them to investigate.”
She sounded ashamed.
“What did you do with the body?” I pushed.
“Nothing!” she said. “It disappeared.”
“What?” Korr’ok barked.
“I swear!” she said, struggling against his grip again, trying to shy away from both of us. “That thing you sent, it came back. I think it took my father’s body. I don’t know.”
Korr’ok grunted. “It’s going to come back tonight, then, too.”
“How do you know that?” I asked, glancing at the smallish windows set high up into the wall. It was nearly dark out.
“Because I do,” Korr’ok replied.
“What do we do, then?”
“Weleave,” he said, releasing Lily, who immediately scurried away, putting some tables between us.
“What about her?” I asked, pointing at the terrified young baker. “You want to just leave her?”
“There’s nothing we can do about her,” he said. “If it chooses to go after her, it will. But it wants you. So, we’re leaving.”
“You can’t be serious!”
“Deadly,” he said, lifting a hand until my breastbone burned. “Let’s go.”
I fought against the mark, but slowly, one foot after the other, I started toward the exit. I looked behind me.
Lily watched us go, fear slowly replacing the look of helplessness as she realized Korr’ok was truly leaving her to her fate.
That bastard.
Chapter Twenty
Korr’ok
Itried to contain myself, not letting my fear spill over.
“Are you scared of it?”
My snarl echoed off the brickwork of the nearby buildings.
“Absolutely not,” I said with a laugh. “I have no reason to be scared of Irrtok.”
Mila’s arm muscles stiffened under my grip, revealing my first mistake as her shock momentarily loosened my control over her. Not that I enjoyed compelling her to behave.
Back on the hill surrounded by tourists, making her experience such sexual highs in public aroused me, turned me on. That was a fun game, and I would welcome a second round. The next time, I wouldn’t give it to her so quickly. I would make it linger, use my voice to control her body and make her live in sexual agony for as long as I could before finally providing the release she would have sought.
But what I was doing? Forcing her to follow me, simply move along behind me? I did not enjoy that. There was no fun to it. It was … boring.
“You know its name.”
I refused to look back at her, to see the accusation on her face. But I had no choice. She stopped fighting my mental orders and surged forward until she could get in front of me and turn around, still walking backward.
“You fuckingknowwhat that thing is,Korr’ok, and you didn’t tell me?”
