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  They had come in through a side door and she looked around at rows and rows of cars, Rvs, trucks and even motorcycles. One of these had to be drivable. “Let’s see if there’s a working pickup.” She suggested. “Good idea.” They set off down rows of cars.

  They were passing a minivan when she heard a door open. They ducked down and stopped moving. “Check everywhere, Master Caedmon is livid we let this happen.” A woman’s voice spoke. Piper nudged her and pointed. She followed her finger to where the tops of pickups could be seen and then to a few rows over in the opposite direction a red flashing light was blinking, a car alarm.

  How were they going to set that off? She looked around but didn’t see anything. She heard footsteps still towards the door they had come through. She slowly rose and peeked into the van. She spotted a pair of heels on the floor.

  She gestured to Piper who slowly rose and crouched to watch the woman searching for them. She gave her a thumb up and she opened the front van door quietly. She reached in and got the heels. She shut the door back with a click. She had no idea what car it was exactly that had the alarm so she guessed and launched one heel in the direction and then the other. She heard one pang off of something and the other hit the target. An alarm started blaring.

  They took off at a crouched run as she heard footsteps running to where the alarm had gone off. They reached the pickups and she went straight to maroon one with thick tires. Peaking in, she saw keys hanging in the ignition. She opened the door and Piper slid in.

  She hopped in and closed the door hitting the lock button. She turned the key. The truck roared to life. She heard yelling but drove forward. There were so many cars here. That meant so many people had fallen victim to these monsters.

  There was a line of police cars she passed. “Turn right!” Piper yelled and she jerked the wheel right. A large metal door was straight ahead. One of the women stood in front of it. She smashed the pedal down speeding up. The woman dove out of the way seeing she would have run her over.

  They smashed through a large metal door and into the night. She swerved onto a road that led away from the warehouse. The road seemed to go on forever but they finally reached a stretch of empty highway. She turned left and gunned it.

  She checked the trucks gauges to see if it had any issues but it didn’t that she could see from the dash. They didn’t celebrate; they weren’t out of the woods just yet.

  They drove and drove and she finally saw the sign of a town called Kirkwood a mile away.

  The sun had begun to rise and the trucks gas light came on as they entered the town. “This place looks abandoned.” Piper said glancing around. It did look abandoned. “Look!” She pointed to a small brick building that said police station.

  They drove to it and she didn’t bother parking the truck she just threw it in park in the center of the parking lot and they got out.

  The sign on the door read “CLOSED”. “Since when do police stations close?” She asked. “It’s pretty empty here; maybe they don’t have a reason to be open?” Piper suggested. That’s when she got a good look at the police car interior parked off to the side.

  Chapter Ten

  “We need to go.” She turned to leave but stopped in her tracks. A man in a police uniform was smiling at them from the end of the ramp they had run up. “Is there a problem ladies?” He grinned. The cop car was coated in stained blood seats on the inside. She knew he wasn’t a real cop.

  Piper shifted behind her. The man withdrew a gun and cocked it. “Why don’t you put the ax and knife down?” She was not going back there to that living hell. “Just shoot me, I’m not going back!” She yelled. Her heart was racing and she saw no way out of this.

  He turned and shot the two front tires and grill of the truck. It started smoking after a minute. That was their exit. “I’m not going to ask you again, Master Caedmon and Master Cieran requested both of you be brought to them, alive.” He grinned again.

  Well she sure as fuck wasn’t going back now. She dodged to the right he fired and missed. Piper hopped the railing and went left. They took off in opposite directions. She ran around the back of the building she heard the fake cop running behind her. She didn’t see him raise the night stick and hit her in the back of the head.

  It was like one minute she was running the next she was in a dark room. Her arms were in rings hanging above her head. Her feet were chained to the floor and she was completely naked. Her head ached. Piper was tied beside her in the same position.

  “You’re awake.” She knew who it was, one of the brothers, the one with blue eyes. “You two are special. Do you know not one single person has ever made it passed the exit hall, let alone out of the doors and all the way to Kirkwood?” He smiled. “I and my brother are very impressed.” He started rolling up his cuff links after removing his suit jacket.

  “Morgana, I think I like you and your friend here.” How did he know her full name? “Surprised? You have two sisters, neither as stunning as you; your parents are still together. You came out here to get away from your ex Ryan.” She just looked at him.

  “Then your car had to overheat.” He shook his head making a tsking sound. “Kira assured me you were just as pretty in person as I had believed.” Kira set them up!? He’s the reason her car overheated!? “I see it clicking together for you.

  Kira wouldn’t have been working at that gas station if it weren’t for me, she worked for us for years now, she usually is very well behaved but, she liked you two. I can see why.”

  That little bitch! She was just as sick and fucked up as they were. She was like a recruiter.

  “Now Morgana, I’m not going to kill you, but I must punish you.” He walked behind her. He placed a gag around her mouth and Pipers who had just woken up.

  “You’re body is perfect.” She couldn’t even flinch as he ran his hands down her back and cupped her ass. It was quiet for a minute and then she heard a buzz through the air and almost ripped her arms out of the sockets when a whip landed on her back. She cried out in the pain around her gag.

  He didn’t stop for one second. He began hitting her back like it was a canvas. She could feel her skin splitting open and blood running down her back. She was choking on her sobs around her gag and screaming with each agonizing blow. The blood was running over her ass and dripping down her legs.

  Her arms felt as if they were about to be ripped from her body the more she pulled.

  He landed one last hit and then she heard the whip drop. She was quietly sobbing.

  Why was this happening to them? They were good people, they volunteered at nursing homes and animal shelters, she babysat for free and she was never mean to anyone. She had just bought strangers groceries last week.

  She didn’t even have it in her to attempt to move when she felt his lips on her back. She wanted to throw up. His tongue came out and she whimpered as he ran it along her wounded back licking the blood. “You taste exquisite.” He placed a kiss to her back and then reached up and unhooked her.

  He unhooked her feet and lifted her in his arms. “My brother will be coming to see your friend.” That made her cry harder. “Now, now he won’t kill her; she’ll get the same punishment you got.” She didn’t pay much attention after that.

  The pain was excruciating. Her back would be ruined, that may have seemed trivial but it mattered to her. He carried her up a set of stairs in the house and went to one of two doors on this level.

  He pushed it open and she was carried through what looked like a living room but as he turned and went through an archway they entered a bedroom and then a large bathroom.

  He deposited her into a large jetted tub that had the drapery drawn over the windows that surrounded it. He turned the water on and warm water soon hit her feet and the tub started to fill.

  He turned and walked out of the room. She wasn’t an idiot, she wasn’t going to try and escape, not in this condition and not without a plan.

  The water was at her back now and she gritted her
teeth against the pain. The tub water quickly went from clear to red. She put her head on her knees and quietly wept.

  Chapter Eleven

  She jerked when she felt his touch again. He wordlessly drained the tub and then started to refill it again. He took a rag and after wetting it squeezed warm water on her back. “Your friend is with my brother, she is fine, well as fine as you are.” She bit hit her tongue, she was positive he wouldn’t want to hear anything she had to say to him.

  After washing her back he further humiliated her by washing every part of her. She was a mixture of in pain and enraged. Once done he took some type of ointment and as soon as it touched her back she sighed. It felt like heaven on the wounds. “This will make it heal faster and ease your pain.” She didn’t say anything. Did he want a fucking thank you?

  He lifted her from the tub and gently towel dried her off. She had to bite her cheek to stop the hysterical laughter that wanted to come out.

  He kidnapped woman, screwed them, killed them, beat them apparently and had them compete against his sick ass vampire tribe.

  Yet, here he was handling her as if she was a piece of glass. He led her into the massive bedroom, “Get in bed.” She hesitated. “You need to rest.” She moved onto the bed and lied on her stomach. She felt him lift a soft plush comforter over her butt and leave it there as to not cover her back.

  He sat on the bed beside her and she could feel his eyes on her. He didn’t touch her, he didn’t even speak. That was one hundred percent fine with her. She closed her eyes and tried to ignore his presence.

  When she opened her eyes again the lights in the room were dimmed and she wondered how long she had been asleep. She sat up on her elbows and looked around. She carefully moved so she was seated on her butt and pulled her knees to her chest.

  She winced at the pain that small effort caused. Her back was on fire and she blinked away the tears of pain that came to her eyes.

  She got a good look at the room now. This man had money. She had assumed so based off his sick game he conducted but this really proved it as she sat taking in his enormous room.

  The ceiling seemed to go up and up and was painted an off white beige color that met the dark colored walls. The furniture in the room was all European luxury style carved and matching. The colors of the room were a deep royal blue, a dark teal and a deep gold.

  The carpet was a damask theme in the same colors. Thick heavy curtains hung from the ceiling against the wall behind the bed.

  She looked up at the large chandelier that was hanging above the bed by a thick gold chain. When she looked back down he was standing at the foot of the bed by a plush velvet bed stool.

  How the hell did he do that? He’s not human. Her mind answered for her. “It’s time we discuss your options Morgana.” She didn’t say anything to him and waited for him to elaborate while she pulled the blanket over herself.

  He had just seen her fully nude but still, her dignity wouldn’t let her just air it all out. He grinned at the gesture. “You have three options. One, you can spend the rest of your days in the lower level of the stable and I don’t want that for you, but my male vampires and some female’s are very interested in playing with you.” She didn’t want to know what that meant.

  “Two, you can go back to the trials tomorrow but I don’t think you would do very well in your current state or Piper who would be going with you, and your third option, you stay with me, you just have to give yourself to me and you will never have to go back to the stable and none of my vampires may touch you.” He stared at her.

  None of those options sounded good to her. She was not going to be the play toy of his freaks, there was no way in hell she was fighting one of his vampires and after they now killed some of them she guaranteed they would make her pay dearly and she had no idea of Piper’s condition. The third..she had no idea what that even entailed. She wasn’t thrilled with that choice either.

  “Piper?” She asked. “Your friend will be with you here, she has chosen the third option with my brother. He will take very, good care of her.” He grinned when he got to very. She swallowed. “What is three?” She couldn’t believe this but number three was the only option that would by her some time.

  He smiled largely at her. “You become like me.” Her face must have shown her reaction to that. “Not right away of course. I don’t trust you; I would only half turn you. I’m not so bad, I can still walk in the sun, I still eat your human food, and I’ve looked thirty-three for a very long time. We will have eternity together.” She had to catch herself from gawking at his insane mental psychotic ass. “Why me?” He came way to close for her to be comfortable with and took her hand.

  “No, one that has ever been brought to us is like you, your gorgeous, your strong, what you did took bravery, you showed loyalty to someone you love and I’ve gathered all there is to know about you, your smart and you’ve got two speeding tickets on your record.” Why couldn’t she have been a prostitute that stole body wash and dropped out of high school?

  She would have to gain his trust to get out of here though. So maybe her track record could work for her benefit. He was smart though she could sense it so how long would this take?

  Chapter Twelve

  She had no choice, she had to choose three. She knew begging to be let go would fruitless and trying to get away so soon would surely result in her death. He immediately cupped her face with his large hands. “That makes me very pleased.”

  He pressed his mouth to hers. She wanted to gag, she knew he used woman for sex daily and he was a depraved psychopath. She would have to get used to this if this is what it took to get them free. He slipped his tongue in her mouth.

  It was so hard to kiss this vile man back. She let her mind go elsewhere as she let him deepen his kiss but what started as soft turned hungry. She wasn’t ready for what she knew was about to come. “Roll over.” It was a sharp command.

  She took a deep breath and rolled to her stomach. “Perfect.” He murmured. She heard him taking off his suit pants and tensed.

  She was fighting a war with herself over this but what choice did she have? She couldn’t exactly fight him and she didn’t know where Piper was to make a grand escape again.

  He lifted her onto her knees and slid a finger inside of her. She tensed and shut her eyes.

  He began moving his finger in and out of her. His finger was gone quickly and she felt his very hard throbbing cock behind her far too quickly.

  “I can’t wait anymore. Try and relax or this will hurt you.” With that he pushed inside of her. She gasped and rushed out a breath.

  He was huge and thick, it hurt, she forced herself to relax as best as she could she felt like she was being split in two. “You are unbelievably tight.” He huskily said. She realized he wasn’t wearing a condom. She went to say just that when he began rapidly pounding into her. He didn’t ease into it he just went to a rapid speed. He cursed as he did this. “I knew you would be like this.” He ground out.

  She squeezed her eyes shut and fisted his sheets. She tried to go to another place but with each thrust her back tightened and she felt every inch of him. She was mortified when a moan slipped out of her mouth. That encouraged him to go even harder than he already was. His hand slipped around her and he found her clit.

  He began rubbing it gently as he thrust. No, no , no she kept repeating in her head. She was not going to find pleasure from this sick creature.

  That was exactly what happened, she bit her lip to try and muffle the sound but he of course knew what had happened.

  She had never got there so fast with her ex or at all during the times they did have sex. Then again Ryan was her first and last. This man was very experienced in what he was doing.

  He didn’t let up after that, he continued thrusting into her at a rapid pace. He gripped her hips hard and she whimpered. He chuckled. Of course he would be turned on by that. He finally finished with one last hard thrust that made her gasp.

  He p
ulled out of her. “Don’t move.” He told her. She stayed like that for a minute. She felt a warm rag between her thighs a minute later. He eased her back on her butt and wiped between her legs. As he pulled away she saw a little bit of blood on the rag.

  When he came back he was back dressed like nothing had happened between them. “You’re perfect but, I have to attend the trials, I will see you later, do not leave this room.” He kissed her lips and left. She curled in a ball and cried herself to sleep.

  When she woke back up she was sore, her back hurt and her spirit was dragging on the ground. She moved gently out of the bed. It hurt to walk. She made her way into the attached bathroom. She went to the sink and splashed water on her face and cupped her hands to drink some. She wasn’t ready to see the damage done to her back yet.

  She walked back into the room. She was still naked and it bothered her. She sat on his bed looking around. She heard a door open and sat waiting. He came into the room and eyed her smiling. “You have no idea how beautiful you are.” He came closer and sat beside her.

  The smell of perfume was very strong and it clearly wasn’t her. He was a pig. That brought her back to earlier. “You don’t use condoms?” She asked and was proud of herself for not yelling at him like she wanted to. “Not with you I don’t.” She didn’t believe that, he had been with the redhead in the barn and doubted he just had a condom handy for that and she didn’t know how she would react if she got pregnant by this mythical creature.

  “One second.” He stood and left the room. He was gone maybe fifteen minutes before he came back with a voluptuous raven haired woman. “Lorintha did we use a condom?” The woman rolled her eyes and looked at her. “Caed always uses condoms sweetie, so don’t worry, we just used one.” Her stomach turned and she bit her lip and cast her gaze downwards.

  The sound of them kissing could be heard in the quiet room. “I’ll see you soon.” He mumbled to the woman. She heard a door shut and still didn’t look up.