Page 46 of Rescued By the Convicts
“Your eyes, your hands, your pussy, are only on me, or the ground, my dirty kuvak,” Namir hissed at her. “That was always your problem. Never knowing your place.”
“You bastard!” Ivan said as he surged toward Namir, but Boxer placed a blaster to his head this time.
“Don’t kill him!” Melina begged. “I’ll do anything you want, Namir. I’ll be the perfect toy for you and your friends. I won’t fight back like before.”
“How right you are,” Namir said, yanking her forward. “Boxer, take the prisoners to the prison transport ship heading to Tarcliss. Level two, bay six. Their documents have already been forwarded. Make sure they arrive alive. I have a special welcoming party awaiting them on the prison planet.”
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MELINA
“Sir?”Boxer stopped Namir before he could drag Melina away to his private quarters on the station. “Your associate just commed me. He needs your eye scan to open a file before we leave the station and lose our grid link.”
“Very well. Tell him to join me here. We’ll wait.” Namir ran his tongue over Melina’s lips. “Just a short delay, my dirty kuvak.”
A scuffle behind them ensued. Ivan was fighting Namir’s guards again. Pride welled inside Melina. Her Ivan would never give up.
“Not too much damage, Boxer!” Namir yelled as Ivan hit the ground. “I want him to enjoy that welcoming party on Tarcliss.”
A man cleared his throat. “Sorry to interrupt, Namir, but I need that eye scan.”
If Namir hadn’t been holding her up but the leash, Melina would have collapsed entirely. “Zev,” she whispered, then caught herself.
Namir kept his eye open long enough for Zev to hold the datapad up and perform the retina scan. The light blinked green and Zev tapped the screen a few times before tucking it under his arm.
Zev works for Namir? No! He can’t!
“Thank you,” Zev said, casually, like a man reporting to his superior. “By the way, we’re cleared to leave the station whenever you want. Customs and security have waived their inspections.”
“Well done,” Namir said as he tugged on the leash, indicating she should raise her head.
“I believe you know Zev, my dirty kuvak. Was he good to you on Veenith? Or did he fuck your ass hard like I told him to?”
Her knees buckled. “Zev?” she said, peering into those dark, cold eyes of his. “Tell m-me you d-don’t w-work for N-Namir. You w-work for The C-Company.”
Namir laughed, that ugly, infuriating laugh of his. “Is that what you told her, Zev? That you were working undercover for The Company to undermine my operation?”
“I inferred,” Zev said with the slightest curl to his lip.
“Oh, that’s rich!” Then Namir sobered. “Come to think of it, I guess indirectly you work for The Company, given that I’m the Chief of Exports on Baccula and I answer to them. For now, at least. There you go, my dirty kuvak. My man didn’t lie to you. Feel better now?”
Namir moved so close to her, his breath rolled over her. “But I bet he fucked you, didn’t he? Please tell me he did, or I’ll be very disappointed that he didn’t listen to orders.”
Melina dragged her eyes to Zev. The curl of his lip, the casual demeanor confirmed her fears. He’d been working for Namir all along.
“I told him he could,” Namir continued. “Told him to take his fill of you, like all my friends. After all, he was risking his life above and beyond on Veenith, keeping you from getting yourself killed until I could retrieve you. But of course, instead of staying in the med-center like you were told, you whored yourself out to a gang of prisoners.” Namir snarled. “You kept me waiting. Again. You will be punished for that as soon as we return home.”
She couldn’t speak. There was nothing to say. Her entire world had been turned inside out.
“Tell me, Zev. Did you enjoy her?”
Zev shrugged like he couldn’t care less that she was dying on the inside. “She wasn’t the best I’ve had, but with no other options down there, she sufficed.”
Humiliation. Namir had always excelled at it. Even on Veenith, he’d found a way to use and humiliate her.
“And yet you didn’t ring her like the other fools in your unit.”
Namir knew everything!
