Page 17 of Monstrous Lies


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AKUJI

Iignore my people’s demands.

The human is mine, and I will fight them for her. I return to the room to warn her of their intentions but find her gone. Ripping back the bed and tossing it across the room, I find an empty hole in the wall. “Aria!” I scream.

I hear my people crowding into the doorway behind me, disrespecting me by coming into my space. I turn to them and bare my teeth in a snarl. The smart ones back away, knowing they couldn’t defeat me, but I hear the murmurs spreading.

“The human escaped. We have to find and kill her before she gets to the wall.”

Fuck!

They are going to hunt my human.

“Aria!” I roar once more.

Fine. If they are going to hunt her, then so am I, and when I find her, she is going to be in big trouble. The possessiveness roaring through me will not be contained. My little human will learn never to betray me again, and as for my people defying me?

They will also.

Red takes over my vision, and my muscles bulge as I stand to my full height as I become the monster they created, the very thing even my people fear. It’s the reason they follow me and why others respect me—the haze.

I shove through those remaining at my door, sending them flying. In mere seconds, I am up through the tunnels, moving faster than any of my people. Those that get in my way get tossed away without thought. They want what is mine.

Mine!

They want to kill my little human.

The red intensifies, and rational thought becomes hard. All I know is anger and possessiveness as I break out into the city. The moon shines down on us as my head drops back and an earth-shattering roar leaves my throat, warning everything and everyone, including Aria, that I’m coming for her.

I follow her scent, the very scent that is branded into my soul. I easily track her through the city, since I’ve been tracking the little human from the first time she stumbled through the wall.

She has always been mine and always will be.

No one, not even my own people, will take her from me.

I don’t even see where I am, my surroundings a blur as I move through the shadows of the city. I am everyone’s worst nightmare. I could even cross territory lines, and I wouldn’t care. I would fight them all for her and win.

I am the strongest monster in this city, and she is my human.

I slide to a stop before a maintenance shack. One of my own is bleeding there, moaning as he starts to awaken. Gripping his thick skull, I lift him into the air with one hand. “Where is she?” I hiss, not even recognising my own voice.

“The fucking human tried to kill me!” he roars.

“Where is she?” I snarl into his face.

“I don’t know. I went to kill her, and she attacked me.”

In the back of my mind, I idly store the notion that my woman is a badass, but all I can focus on is that he tried to hurt what is mine. I squeeze his head between my hands with a roar until it explodes into brain matter and bone. Dropping his body to the ground, I spin and hiss at everything. Lifting my head into the air, I sniff and catch her scent once more, but this time, I slowly follow it.

It winds through the alleys and buildings—smart little human.

It might fool the others, but it won’t fool me.

She could never escape me in this city. The only place she could go that would be safe from me is over the wall.

My hunt leads me through winding paths, water, and buildings, where she has clearly tried to disguise her scent. She’s even gone so far as to change clothes. I pick up the discarded jeans, press my nose to the fabric, and inhale deeply. The warm scent goes straight to my cock, hardening it, even as anger and fear war within me.

I hear my people rampaging as they search for her.

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