“Lyric,please. We were searching for you. We’ll die without water.” At least Aza sounded a little more apologetic, but that’s what I expected. They knew what was about to happen, and they knew they were nothing more than prey to Ethan right now. I was their only chance to escape. Except I wasn’t going to let that happen. My human deserved to be happy.
They could suffocate for all I cared because they deserved everything they got.
“What do you say?” Ethan whispered against my lips. “We keep one alive as proof, kill the other one and let them take the tail for testing?”
I nodded and glanced over his shoulder at the mermen as the mechanical arm slowly lowered them to the boat’s deck. It didn’t release the net, but it stopped with a quiet whir as it settled them on the floor.
Ethan turned to look at them, his smile wide and brilliant, and it made him even more handsome. “The one with the gold tail, we’ll take his.”
Aza’s eyes widened and he kicked hard, but it did little to help. “Don’t do this, Lyric. Your father sent us.”
Zolo bared his teeth in my direction. “You’re a seaweed, Lyric. We shouldn’t have wasted our time on you. You were never meant to be one of us.”
“Stop it,” Aza hissed over his shoulder at Zolo.
“Fuck, do you hear this?” Ethan shook his head and laughed. “All this yipping like a dog. Yip, yip, yip.”
I cocked my head toward my human and frowned. Was that what he heard? Yipping? I supposed it made sense that he couldn’t understand them. It worked out well, too, because I couldn’t have him hearing what they were saying about me. I didn’t want to upset him.
“So what do you say, my merman whisperer?” Ethan cuddled me closer and grabbed my chin in a hard grip, slamming his mouth against mine like he wanted to devour me. I let him because I was his faithful slave, his bitch, and his whore. His everything. “Let’s get to work.”
I nodded eagerly.
