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“So long, Champion,” the barbaros said with disdain.
He swung his paw at me.
The nails were so sharp they would slice the skin from my bones in an instant.
And there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it.
But the blow didn’t come.
“Back off!” another voice growled. “He’s mine!”
It was the creature from the first tunnel. He slammed the barbaros aside and into the pit’s wall. He beat at the creature with his stone flesh. He was a golar and was almost impossible to destroy. But he had weaknesses if you knew where to look.
While my opponents were busy destroying each other, I peered up at the observation window again.
I’m sorry, Ivy. You’re going to have to hang on just a bit longer.
I turned to the assholes that’d torn me from Ivy and a growl escaped my throat.
They wanted to fight me, did they? So be it.
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IVY
The cords strapping me down were unrelenting and impossible to break. They didn’t cut into my skin but they would have if they were any sharper.
“Don’t struggle too much,” the Supervisor said. “They grow tighter the more you struggle. They’ve been known to snap the bones of even the most powerful creatures. Never mind a pathetic human.”
“You wouldn’t let them hurt me. Not with the baby in my belly.”
“I wouldn’t hurt your womb,” he said with a nod. “But I don’t care about the rest of you. Broken arms, legs, it doesn’t matter.”
He actually meant it.
I turned to the scientists busy working on their various projects.
“How can you keep working without helping me? I’m a pregnant woman and this guy is threatening to torture me!”
None of the workers looked up. I might as well not exist.
I struggled and the cords drew even tighter around my arms and legs. I hissed through my teeth. Any tighter and they would snap my limbs for sure.
I wanted to scream and shout and struggle but it was no use. If I did that, I would only put myself in a ton of pain. And for what?
I glared at the Supervisor.
“Why are you doing this? We had a deal.”
“A deal you were going to break. If you didn’t try to negate our deal, none of this would have been necessary. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
Sure. Great argument, asshole.
“Blaming me for falling in love,” I said, shaking my head. “You know, for a scientist, you aren’t very smart. Nothing can fight love. You don’t know, because you’ve never felt it before. And you can’t detect it with all your fancy machines and technology.”
What the Supervisor said next surprised me.
“Oh, I know love exists, girl,” he spat. “Even creatures such as myself have loved.”
