Ch. 66 Unspeakable Things

Zoe’s POV

I blinked my eyes rapidly, hoping that my vision would clear and the creature leering at me would disappear like a bad dream. But it wasn’t a dream. The biting cold of the concrete wall at my back and the dirt floor with its jagged-edged rocks digging into my feet were terrifyingly real.

My arms were strung up over my head, bound in metal chains and attached to a silver ring hanging from the ceiling. My feet were shackled in iron manacles attached to the floor. My naked body was stretched taut and the silver cuffs on my wrists singed my skin with any attempt to move.

The remnants of whatever drug they’d given me still burned in my veins, no doubt responsible for my still blurred vision. I should have been thankful I couldn’t see clearly but when the creature moved toward me in a blur of black scales and streaks of green from his luminescent eyes it was all the more horrific.

A scream died in my throat as the black shadow drew suffocatingly close, morphing into more o