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I held her close, the water cascading down our backs.
“It’s okay. I know why you did it. But you need to rest now. You need to heal.” I turned off the water and wrapped her in towels. I lifted her off the floor and brought her into the bedroom. I wasted no time in tucking her underneath the covers.
“Stay here. Rest,” I demanded, and she nodded.
Fighter that she was, she didn’t have the energy to disobey me. She nodded, and her eyes fluttered closed. I waited a few long minutes before venturing out to check on my comrades. All three of them were still at their posts, waiting for the human men to come for her.
“Anything?” I asked, my own gaze searching our surroundings, noting that the sun was beginning to drop in the sky.
“Nothing. But I’ve disabled the electricity in the rest of the building,” Davon answered. “I also trip wired the front entrance, so that any movement would alert us to the intruder’s presence. I also hacked into the body heat sensing system, so that if anything living comes near, we’ll know.”
“I’ve seen humans running between buildings, but none have paused by ours. They seemed more intent on escape,” Morgn answered.
“You know we have to return to the scene,” Aarom whispered.
My heart wrenched in two. I didn’t want to leave her alone, but he was right. We had to move, and we had to move quickly.
“She’s sleeping. We have to move now, before she wakes,” I replied. “If there are any more human females hidden away within that renegade post, we’ll find them.”
I turned back, looking in the direction of our sleeping beauty.
“No one can get in,” Davon assured me.
“If someone so much as touches the front door, they’re gonna fry to pieces,” Aarom added and I grinned.
“Good,” I replied.
Now that our woman was safe and sound, we could concentrate on rescuing other victims of this cruel human faction. We all piled back into our small ship and sailed away, the four of us silent as we contemplated what had to be done.
We completed our mission in less than two hours. The factory had been mostly abandoned, a handful of women left behind. We rescued three, who looked to be too sick or weak to have been given any thought. They were chained to the walls, left to die.
Human cruelty apparently knew no bounds.
We severed their bonds, killed the rest of the men who were still surviving despite their injuries. For the most part, we performed our duties without a fight.
Before long, we were back in our ship and traveling back to the penthouse.
The women whimpered in our grasps, but they weren’t
strong enough to fight us. They were delirious, didn’t realize we weren’t out to hurt them. We were there to save them.
When we arrived back on the terrace, Alaina was there waiting, wrapped in a fluffy blanket. I flinched upon seeing her. Her black eye had grown deeper, more latent bruises blossoming over her pale skin. She met my eyes and smiled, despite everything.
She was so strong. So very strong.
She watched, as we climbed out of the ship, her eyes drifting over the women that we’d rescued.
“Nina,” she breathed out loud.
One of the women lifted her head, her green eyes looking in Alaina’s direction. She started sobbing, blubbering apologies for luring her in, that the men had forced her to trick Alaina. That the men had tortured her.
The poor woman seemed to shatter into a thousand pieces right before me.
Alaina walked forward and took the girl’s hands in hers.
“Shh. I forgive you. I know how the men were,” she said quietly, a small look of faraway horror drifting through her eyes.
She needed her men. She needed all of us.
