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costume were ripped neck to hem leaving her waist and above fully revealed. She felt
sick and backed up against the wall, putting as much distance as possible between them.
He hissed like the snake he resembled and started toward her. This time she reacted with
a well-placed kick to the groin but instead of neutralizing him, if only for a moment, it
enraged him. He backhanded her so hard her head hit the adjacent wall with a sickening
thud and everything went black.
When he started for her again, he was grabbed by two of his shipmates.
What are you doing you fool, if you kill her we all die! If not by Sherem then
her brother or worst of all, our leader. You ve seen his temper; you ve seen what he can
do. We may already be doomed, Gorrick. He knew he was babbling but couldn t stop.
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Bager wished he d never gotten involved with these low-lifes. There was little chance he
would survive it. For once, his mate had been right. She had warned him to take a pass
and walk away but the credits had been a lure that he d been unable to forego. Now it
would mean his death. He approached the broken female and gingerly felt for a pulse.
She still breathed. He injected a dose of the zombie drug then carefully lifted her and
carried her to the sleeping chamber.
Nadia awakened to a worse nightmare than she could envision. Four of them
stood over her, their appendages exposed and pointed in her direction. Was this some
kind of satanic ritual? They were touching themselves, rubbing their erections and
occasionally grunting and then it began; one by one, they began squirting a cloudy
substance all over her. It was pungent and repulsive. She wanted to be retch but was
afraid she would drown in her own vomit. She could not move her limbs or her mouth
but she could see and feel and was aware of everything happening around her. She was
utterly helpless, what had they given her? She realized at that moment that she lay on a
mat entwined with a male body as still as her own. They had been posed together. She
prayed to be sucked out a portal into open space rather than face what she knew followed.
She did not have long to wait.
They entered silently but the air in the chamber immediately changed. It seemed
charged with rage, fury, and a myriad of other emotions she could not pinpoint but were
as equally in evidence. There were no rantings of betrayal or accusations, no words at
all. She couldn t tell who had entered; only that Sherem was among them. She could
pick out his scent even through the stench of sex clinging to the room and her skin. Were
there others gawking at them, stunned into disgust?
The air moved once more and Sherem appeared before her. She was so
humiliated that a lone tear found its way past her lashes and onto her cheekbone, making
a path to her mouth. Sherem bent down and gently kissed it away. He covered her to her
chin with his cloak then lifted her high and tightly to his chest issuing quiet orders to get
Dakar aboard his ship and into an MTU.
Nadia closed her eyes. They were saved but at what cost? She would never be
able to face Sherem again.
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Lil Gibson
Chapter Eight
Sherem entered his quarters with orders not to be disturbed until called. He
lowered Nadia carefully onto his mat and proceeded to shed his clothing matter of factly.
He could not remember a time that left him so enraged. Pent up fury made his hands
shake. They had beaten her badly. The left half of her face had turned four shades of
purple while a lump could be felt on the back of head to the right. Her right shoulder had
bruised, as well. The short visit to the Med-unit had removed most of her physical
injuries but what of those inside. He wished the mongrels responsible for her injuries
were still alive so he could kill them once again. Only one remained alive so they could
coax information on who was behind the kidnapping. After he talked, Sherem would
deal with him alone. He closed his eyes in an effort to block the emotions he saw roiling
in her eyes. She looked like a cornered animal fear, desperation, and humiliation
radiating in waves from her wounded eyes.
How could he comfort her? He was horrible in these situations; the inadequacy of
words never more pronounced. He wanted to fix her, heal her, protect her from what she
experienced and shield her from every hurtful occurrence in the future. He blinked did
he love her?
Nadia stared, mesmerized while questions flowed through her mind faster than an
angry river. She was thankful her jaw could not move or it would be residing on her
chest. His body was a beautiful mystery to behold. His bronze skin glowed, accentuating
the hard planes and contours of his body. He was perfection. His male member jutted
out at a ninety-degree angle from his muscle-banded abdomen. She noted that his sex
measured both longer and thicker than those of her attackers, and wondered why the fact
pleased rather than frightened her. Her gaze sought his to determine why he had disrobed
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