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“No. You’re not taking me anywhere.”
“You get no choice, female. I have more power than you. I can take you without even trying.”
I can feel a pressure in my throat and then it feels like the slim column of my neck is being crushed, punished. I grab it futilely and try to speak but there’s nothing.
My eyes shoot to Lobo and I hold out a hand, begging, pleading silently even as the air in my lungs coalesces and disappears. I can’t breathe and my fingers claw at my throat and chest desperately. Like I can rip my way to my own breath. I can feel my skin tearing, blood on it as the shadow creeps closer and I see it licking its lips hungrily.
“I can smell your fear, human. You know that you can’t win against me.”
My vision begins to tunnel in and stars burst behind my eyelids as I sink to my knees. Sound becomes washed in a sea of muddle until I can barely tell that there’s any sound at all. Just pain and the mind-numbing terror of sinking into an abyss of death.
CHAPTER9
Radric
Ican’t see anything anymore. I thought I saw a shadow earlier but now that I’ve crept around to the front I can’t even see the shifter zombie that’s carrying the demon.
I creep around the edge of the forest around us, keeping myself hidden so that I can hopefully sneak up on whatever’s out here.
I have an icy chill that keeps creeping over me, beating at me and telling me that I’ve made a mistake and that feeling is getting stronger until I feel a fear like nothing I’ve ever known takes over me and I turn to run back to the cabin.
Even as I’m turning, I feel my insides turn to ice and I can’t breathe. It feels like I’m being smothered.
I trip and almost go down and then reach out to run my hand along the ground, feeling a soft, squishy thing under my hand and scent the smell of death and blood.
“Fuck!’ I roar and leap to my feet, practically levitating off the ground as I race back to the cabin.
I slam back inside and find my mate on her knees, her gorgeous, sky-blue eyes wide with pain and fear and a dimming of all that is her.
“No fucking piece of shit demon can kill my goddess, you stain.”
The shadow grins and I see his hand tighten on her throat. Her eyes roll back in her head and I shift into my snake, slithering closer. I can see that she’s terrified and it’s not just of him now.
But I have no choice. I must save her. Even if it terrifies her.
There’s a bruise on her throat spreading out until her chest is dark blue and mottled and I know that he’s having to work hard because she’s stronger since we mated.
But she’s still so fragile that it’s hard for her to fight him.
But that’s what she’s got me for.
I can see that Lobo is frozen and can’t move and it’s not me doing it. It’s the demon.
But I slither closer, watching him shift away from me. One bite and this motherfucker is toast.
He knows it too. I can taste his fear. My tongue darts out and scents his fear on the air.
“Let go,” I growl with my tongue coming out.
“No. I’ll let go when both of you are dead.”
But I grin. I slither closer and watch him back away. One step back and three slithered feet left.
We do this dance until I see my mate slipping to the ground and then I grasp his body and grin evilly.
“Let’s see how you do against another, stronger demon.”
I grasp his body, such as it is, and drag him down, down, down, until we’re staring up at the floor and I watch Lobo helping my mate.
