Page 76 of Monstrous Truths


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That’s when I feel breath fanning across the back of my neck.

I freeze like prey, unable to move. I feel that warm breath move closer, and then I turn, unable to stop. There, towering above me, is a monster.

He’s red-skinned, horned, and fanged, but this one has bright orange eyes, and instead of one tail, he has two. His legs are slightly bowed, and his back and sides are covered in long, sharp spikes. He looks absolutely terrifying, but I’m learning some of the scariest-looking things are actually the nicest and that a pretty face can hide vile souls.

“Hi,” I squeak out.

There’s a bang on the glass, but I don’t look away from the monster. “Don’t worry, bitch, we won’t let it kill you. The boss just wants it to fuck you.” The guard laughs.

“Human,” the monster hisses, lifting his nose and sniffing. “You smell like monster.”

I swallow, refusing to be afraid. I am sure he can smell my fear, but I still fake it. “Because I am the mate of a monster.”

“No, not mated.” He sniffs, pacing around me. “Not yet at least.”

“We haven’t actually had time.” I huff, and he chuckles as he stops before me again.

“They want me to breed you,” he snarls, hissing in my face.

“They can fuck off, and if you touch me, I’ll kill you, monster or not, and then my mate will come and rip your corpse to pieces for even looking at me.” I sniff.

He laughs. “I like you. You are strong, not like the other humans, who all stink of lies and fear.”

“I am not like them. I’m on your side,” I promise. I look back at the guard. “Hear that, fucker? I am on their side. Fuck you and your sick-ass experiments, you piece of shit!” I rage, slamming my fists into the glass. “I will never fucking help you!” Huffing, I look back at the monster. “Are you going to try to breed me?”

“No.” He cocks his head. “I will never do what they want. They will have to kill me first.”

I relax a little, wandering around his tiny cell with no privacy as the guard watches us, unsure what to do. “What are you? You are not like the monsters I know.”

“I am a splice. I was made here. I know nothing else but this lab,” he answers, watching me curiously.

I eye him, nodding. “They modified your genetics. I wonder why.”

“You are a scientist,” he sneers.

“Yes, and I’m using that to protect the monsters by figuring out what they want with us, and then I plan to burn all their fucking research as a giant fuck you,” I tell him unashamedly.

He nods like he likes that answer. “I do not mate the unwilling. I will not be their puppet, despite how much they torture me, and they know that. For them to throw you in here, they must not like you.”

“No, they want to break me.” I shrug. “But they won’t succeed. Men have been trying my whole life.” I meet his eyes. “When I get out of here, I’ll let you all free. You can go over the wall with us, meet others of your kind, and find a home, happiness, and a future.”

He blinks and then offers me a slow smile. “I would like that…to be happy.”

As he’s facing me, the door opens and a guard storms in, lifts his gun, and blows out the monster’s brains as I scream. I scream and scream, even as they drag me out before a frowning Hayes. “That was his last chance, he knew that. His death is on your hands, Talia. Not to worry, there are plenty more monsters to force into your cunt, some who will enjoy it. Take her back for now and let her calm the beast down. Hell, maybe in the madness, it will fuck her and we’ll get what we want.”

Shocked silent, I look back at the headless body of the kind monster I just met.

I need to get us out of here fast.

FORTY-TWO

TALIA

Ididn’t listen to most of what they said, but by the time I’m back at my cell, it clicks and I understand, because there, covered in blood and ripping the cell apart, despite the shocks running through his system, is a red-eyed Cato.

“Cato?” I ask, unsure.

He stills, and his head snaps to me with a growl. My heart hammers from worry. His head falls back slightly as he inhales, and the howl he lets out chills me to my bones. I don’t fight as he snatches me and slams me against the wall, keeping his back to the door, protecting me as he sticks his head in the crook of my neck.

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