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My screams echo around the temple as my body starts to writhe and jerk uncontrollably against Emrys’ grip. There’s no escaping this mating, there is only taking the pleasure, taking the cock, there is only the dominant ravaging which makes me twist, shudder, and finally collapse against the altar.
“Good girl,” Emrys praises me, giving me an almost chaste kiss upon my lips. I taste my blood on his mouth as intense exhaustion comes over me.
I close my eyes and I lie in the arms of the first lover who has ever claimed me so completely the fight evaporated from me entirely. Emrys is the embodiment of evil and power, and I have left myself to his vicious mercies.
I could save myself, perhaps, if there was another chance. I could run again, but I do not have the desire. I could fight the same way I’ve been fighting for years. But what would be the point? Fate itself sucked me out of a deadly storm and threw me into Emrys’ path. This is where I belong.
“You’re an absolute menace,” he murmurs in my ear, his tone one of adoration. “The perfect mated queen for a hive of villainy such as this one.”
For days, I am kept upon the royal altar. I am fucked more times than I can count, and I come more than I have ever come in my life. I lose track of how often it happens during the days and nights, but I know that at the going up and the going down of the sun, I am fed upon and mated by Emrys. My blood and his seed ebb and flow. I grow weaker and weaker, but it does not matter to me. Every bit of waning strength feels like a taste of a little more freedom.
“She may not survive this much longer.” I hear Aristo’s voice speaking with some measure of concern as I fade in and out of consciousness.
“The ritual is not about survival. The ritual is about renewal. The death of the queen is an acceptable price to be paid.”
Those words lead me to my deepest surrender yet. Emrys will take every drop of blood and he will leave me a husk of what I was. I close my eyes, I let my head fall back. I meet my end in the beautiful jaws of the alien I could not escape.
7 SHARING IS CARING
Breath, sweet breath.
Life, sweet life.
I am surprised when I wake up no longer attached to a sacrificial pillar. I thought I was most certainly dead. I thought Emrys had drained me to the very last drop. But my eyes open and I draw breath, and I live in a way I never imagined I would again.
I have been washed. I have been clad in soft clothes. I have been tucked up snugly, and I am being held in the arms of the creature I was certain would destroy me.
Emrys looks down at me as I look at him in complete confusion.
“Why am I still here? Is there more you want?”
“The intention was never to kill you. The point was for you to sacrifice yourself. You did that. You surrendered yourself to me. You gave your blood. You took my seed. You lost your dignity and your ego. You gave up every little bit of yourself. You no longer know why you live…”
“I’ve never known why I live,” I say. “Why do I feel so good?”
Emrys smiles. “You do feel good, don’t you? You feel lighter, stronger, healthier?”
Yes. All those things. I feel the way I remember feeling only when I was very young, but I feel them more deeply and more intensely than before.
“What did you do to me?”
“I rewarded you,” he says. “You have earned it.”
“How did you reward me?”
He smiles enigmatically and declines to reply. I know there’s no way he is going to actually tell me what he did. Whatever happened took place when I was insensate. I am grateful to be alive, and I am even more grateful to feel good.
I stretch and squirm in his arms, feeling a kind of settled warmth. He holds me close, strokes my hair, and makes me feel petted and cosseted. The fear I experienced when I first met him, the desperate running from him, it all culminated here.
“That’s a good girl,” he praises me. “You have proven to be quite the surprise, little one. What started as a scam has turned out to be an excellent investment. It almost makes me curious. What happened to your name, human? What twisted and broke you? What turned you from a generally useless little lump of meat into this scheming creature good only for sacrifice?”
“My king…” Aristo appears. He seems to be allowed to wander in and out of Emrys’ most intimate areas without permission.
Then again, I have spent the last few days chained to a plinth and being ravaged for anybody to see. Privacy is not in abundance among the valkers.
“Yes?”
“There is a creature claiming he has legal jurisdiction over the queen.”
