So I fought back, and if I couldn’t do it physically, then I’d cut them with the words that spilled from my tongue.
That led to more punishments and pain.
But I’d stayed alive this long, and I’d be damned if my final downfall was because this fucking place was going down the drain.
Another blast had the entire place shaking, and I ducked my head, shielding my eyes as much as possible from the wreckage raining down.
More shouting. More sounds of war going on right outside the room I was in. I heard humans cursing, followed by otherworldly roars.
The Otherworld creatures were free.
I snapped my head up to stare at the entrance of the room when I heard nails scraping along the cinder block. A second later, half a body was thrown across the hall, the sickening squelch of it hitting the ground enough to make me gag.
And then a massive creature stood on the other side of the doorway. His upper body appeared that of a human man, all smooth darker skin and hard rippling muscles.
But his lower body was beastly, with hooves for feet, fur covering his legs and lower abdomen, and an embarrassingly huge penis hanging between his legs.
Of course I drew my attention away from that to look at his face, which still appeared semi-human, but he had arcing horns that swept backward over his skull, glowing eyes, and fangs that went past his bottom lip.
He stopped in the doorway and looked at me, head cocked to the side, and his form so big he wouldn’t have been able to clear the entryway without crouching low and turning his body.
The long fluorescent light in the room flickered on and off for a second before another earsplitting boom had the walls vibrating.
The light crashed down, the bulb shattering and plunging the room into darkness. The light that spilled inside was from the flickering yellow glow of the corridor, which only highlighted the fact that the big-ass creature still stood there.
His eyes were red as he stared at me, and I pulled again and again at my restraints. But the chains were magically enforced, and because I was Fae, I was no stronger than a human. On top of being constantly drugged, I was getting nowhere with my freedom.
“If you’re just gonna stand there and stare at me, maybe help a girl out and get these damn things off.” I rattled the chains. “Okay… well, if you don’t plan on helping me, then can you please kindly fuck off and get someone who can help? I’d prefer not to be buried alive down here.”
I probably should’ve kept the last part to myself. Pissing off my would-be helper wasn’t the smartest move. I might only be twenty-six years old and not have the decades or centuries of life experience of many in the Otherworld, but I was feisty and not about to go down without a fight.
Gods, could this male move any slower? It’s not like the damn place was falling down around us.
Of course I kept that to myself and pasted a smile on my face, one that I hoped was grateful and not forced and anxious as hell.
He was about five feet from me when his nostrils flared and his eyes bled to all black. He let out this deep rumbling growl before he said, “It’s been a long time since I had fresh meat.”
Oh shit.
I struggled against the chains, but it was useless. I braced and tensed, ready to kick this asshole right in his monstrously big—and very inhuman—dick if he got any closer to me.
He took a step forward, his hooves stepping over broken glass and crushing it even more until it was nothing but powder under him.
I heard the crack of a weapon going off a second before the creature roared and was flung to the side.
He gave a deafening roar before he turned. I could see a human pointing one of those weird-ass guns they carried at him, firing off another light-blinding shot before the Otherworld creature launched himself at the man.
Another shot was fired, this one landing right beside my head into the concrete.
“Holy fuck,” I breathed out and tried to make myself as small as possible.
There was another shot fired and cinder block rained down on me, but then my arms were loose. I looked up to see the wayward bullet had pierced the chain.
I heard more cracking and didn’t stop to worry about the hows or whys or what the hell was going on in the room with the human and Otherworld beast.
I just got the hell out of there with the sound of shit crashing behind me following my escape.
I was running down the hallway, having no freaking clue where I was going, dodging broken light fixtures, and pieces of concrete and plaster falling down all around me.