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And then searing pain slashed across my chest. I shrieked at the sting. My chest band ripped to shreds, leaving my upper body bare as I hastily crouched and hugged myself. My shaking hands slipped a few times, fumbling over warm red streaking from the throbbing gashes.
I was successful in covering my slippery chest with only my small arms and my hair, but that didn’t stop my bare back from showing.
And it didn’t stop the Spiders from advancing towards me.
6
I screwed my eyes shut when the Velli Spider reached for me.
But I never felt his hand on me.
Instead, I heard the sound of something smacking against flesh.
“E-Eon?!”
My eyes snapped up immediately, and I froze when I saw the Cyrva male from yesterday.
He glared at the Velli with such malicious eyes, but his expression remained flat. Even with his lips set in a thin line and his brows low, he looked… oddly calm.
The Velli flinched, casting his eyes to the ground with his shoulders slumping forward a little. His downwards gaze drew my attention to the thick, red thread twisting around his wrist. That must have been why he surrendered so easily.
The Cyrva Spider turned to me, and I stilled, holding my breath. The intensity of his gaze burned me, a fierce flame raging against the white of his eyes. And again, it struck me how strange his eyes were, different from what the books had shown and different from the eyes of the other three Spiders. One from each of the four breeds was in front of me, and yet they all resembled what the books had shown. Except him.
I hugged myself tighter when he moved towards me, his shadow swallowing me when he stopped before me. Crouching low, he dipped his head and silently peered into my eyes. I held his gaze, a little hypnotised by the fire in his ruby eyes.
He reached for me, and I couldn’t stop the quick, frightened movement of my body as he pulled me close to him. I held myself tighter, my heart beating in my throat as he wrapped his thick arms around me. Shielding my bare back from the eyes of the other Spiders, I realised with a start. He was warm, uncomfortably so that I grimaced.
I looked up at him hesitantly when his hand moved my hair back, exposing my ear to him. My instincts were displeased again, another grimace twisting my face as I suppressed the urge to bare my fangs at him.
Right now, it seemed he was the only one not interested in slaughtering me.
His eyes calmly inspected the scratches on my neck, the gentleness of his touch as he caressed my skin worrying me because a Spider wasnevergentle.
The other three had made it perfectly clear.
The yellow-orange fire in his eyes burned bright. His skin was also becoming warmer, almost hot, and I feared that soon he’d truly turn to fire.
Then he pushed me behind him.
I poked my head from his left side, peeking at the other Spiders.
“Who did this?”
Silence.
“I won’t ask again.” His back muscles flexed as he took a threatening stance. “Who touchedmyprey?”
“We didn’t—”
Crack.
I flinched and stumbled back, wide-eyed, my hands shooting to cover the gasp that escaped my lips.
Hecrushedthe Velli’s jaw. It was angled bizarrely, pieces of bone poking out from his skin. He’d moved so fast—he’d grasped the Velli’s jaw and squeezed too fast for my eyes to track, and by the time the noise registered, it was too late.
My eyes blurred, my body shaking like a thin leaf in the wind.
I couldn’t breathe.
