Page 9 of Angel Unchained

“What the fuck was that for?” I raised a shaky hand to my throat, my pulse jumping under fingers.

“You need to get out of here. Now,” he snarled.

“Well, in case you haven’t noticed, I can’t.” I glanced over at the barred door. “We’re both trapped in here and I don’t like it any more than you do, but here we are.”

He clenched and unclenched his hands. His face a mask and I backed up, hitting the stone wall behind me.

“Y-you’re scaring me,” my voice came out small and weak.

He turned those fully dilated eyes on me again. His nostrils flared. A muscle in his jaw twitched like he was fighting back something.

Oh God, I had been right. He was going to kill me and eat my freaking liver. I started to tremble. He was bigger than me—there’d be no way I could fight him off. What if he gored me with his horns?

When he took a step toward me, I shrieked.

“Don’t come any closer.” My voice was shaky and not brave at all like I’d hoped. “I know self-defense…it’ll hurt…a lot.”

“I’m tortured daily for my secrets. For my people’s ability to heal. Yet they send in you to try and break me? It won’t work.”

“Wait, what?” I held up my hands. “No, I-I don’t know what you’re talking about. No one sent me. I told you what happened. I’m here to pay a debt.”

“No, you’re here to try and seduce me.”

I balked. “What the hell are you talking about? You’re freaking scary right now—why would I?”

“Thirteen months? That’s how long gestation is for my people.”

“So—what does that—”

The Roulex's words hit me and my knees gave out. I sank to the floor.

“Yes, female, they intend to have you pay back your loan by breeding with me.”