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She did. The harsh battering I received faded to nothing as I peered into her deep-set and loving eyes.
She looked up at me, the same way she had earlier that night when we made love. She never took her eyes from mine. Likely she didn’t want to lose the connection we shared either. With me hunched over her, her lips were less than an inch from mine.
We were locked away inside this cocoon of safety together and the rest of the world might not have existed at all.
She placed a hand on my cheek and closed her eyes. I did too. Suddenly, I was transported to a distant place where we were no longer in the midst of a crushing crowd of frightened and panicked prisoners on a cold and distant alien moon.
We were back in my cell. It was just the two of us and I could do what I wanted with her. And she could do the same with me. Once more, we could ascend that incredible rise to the promised land on the other side. It was a long trek but one we could make if we worked together.
She raised her mouth to mine and pressed them gently but firmly to my lips. She gently sucked my bottom lip, taking it between her own and massaging it with her tongue. Her body was warm and inviting beneath me, and pressed against her so close, she must have felt the bulge in my pants.
I had no idea how long it took for the rampaging mob to pass, but eventually they did, and once they had, I was too firmly locked on her lips to notice.
Agatha leaned back and checked over my shoulder. The prisoners were no longer there and she smiled up at me.
“I think they’re gone,” she said.
“Are they?” I said.
She was right, of course. I no longer felt their buffeting elbows and sharp knees that threatened to sweep my legs out from under me.
I straightened up and pulled back, feeling a little at a loss for having to lose this moment with Agatha. The backs of the massing crowd were just down the hall from us, still marching away.
I took Agatha by the hand and turned toward the hallway the mob had vacated.
Bodies lay strewn about the place like discarded food packets. They were crushed underfoot, demolished and turned to mush.
Agatha didn’t flinch at the sight of them. I guess she’d seen a pulverized body or two during her time at the prison.
We moved down the hall and found no sign of what had terrified the prisoners. For a moment, I thought it might be the warden’s newly arrived guards but there was no sign of them or anything that might have caused the impromptu stampede.
“Well, well, well,” a deep-throated voice said over my shoulder. “What have we got here?”
I recognized the voice immediately and spun around, releasing Agatha’s hand and taking up my bedpost cudgel. Before I could bring it around, one of the Afzit twins placed the point of his blade up under my chin.
He had a large bulge from where I’d struck him over the head earlier. He had other cuts to his face and unless he came in contact with another prisoner earlier, it was my handiwork and labeled him as the elder twin.
“You don’t have to do this,” I said.
“Oh, but we do,” Afzit the elder growled under his breath. “Nobody issues a beat down of the Afzit twins without paying for it.”
I was keenly aware there was only one brother. Where was the other one? Had I hit him over the head so hard that it took him out of commission?
I hoped so.
Agatha screamed and when I turned, I found the other twin wrapping his arms around her waist and tugging her away from me.
“Agatha!” I yelled, turning to confront Afzit the younger.
The blade stiffened beneath my chin and made a small incision there, causing the blood to run down my neck.
“We’ll have none of that,” Afzit the elder said. Then he spoke to his brother. “What have we got there?”
Afzit the younger pulled Agatha’s hood back, revealing the smooth cheeks of her face and her gorgeous blazing eyes.
“Looks like we’ve got ourselves a Prize!” the younger Afzit twin said.
“Is this true?” Afzit the elder said, fixing me with a dangerous glare. “Have you been holding out on us?”
