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2021-08-31 05:04:07The searing pain right down into his bones was far greater than Martin could have ever imagined. He didn’t know what to do to relieve it. It hurt to stand. It hurt to sit. It hurt to lie down. He wanted to scream the pain away but feared appearing weak in front of the king; especially since Nick was behaving in such a damnable stoic manner.
What Martin didn’t realize was that Nick was in so much pain he was practically frozen by it. He couldn’t get his ribcage to work well enough to take in the amount of air that was needed to operate his vocal cords enough to protest the situation. As terrible as it was being cramped and clamped to the wall while a hostage, he’d much rather be there than going through the trauma his body was experiencing after being pulled from the mundane side of the veil to shadow land.
The doors of the castle anti-chamber burst open as the king’s physician and his assistant rushed to tend to the men. Prep
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Their zealous grumbles and complaints about having to pay for time with a used-up sex slave got the results they desired. They watched as Vanessa’s limp body was unceremoniously hauled off to a pickup waiting behind the building and tossed onto the pile of other used up sex slaves. It looked like they’d have to work fast to learn the route of the pickup. It was clearly time to make a delivery.Ocilian offered to give them time with another slave, but they indignantly declined and made their exit. Time was of the essence. They needed to mix and mingle and ask just the right questions in just the right way to figure out the best and least dangerous way to rescue Vanessa.As luck would have it, Nick stumbled upon two of the men who’d went in with Vanessa before him. His fingers dug into Martin’s forearm as he joked with them about getting worn out goods and listened to all they did to her. Their patie
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Alison paced the hall outside the room they’d placed Vanessa in. The doctor closed the door to all visitors almost three hours earlier while he examined and tended to her. Could she be that damaged?Her thoughts shifted to Alfred and Heloise. She’d learned that Heloise escaped the prison with magic and there was fear that she’d return for Alfred and take him using the same method. The elders were fervently working to decipher what type of magic Heloise used so that, should she return to free Alfred, they’d be ready for her. Not only did they intend to stop her from freeing him, but they planned on recapturing her as well. Once back in custody, steps would be taken to bind her that should have been taken in the first place.The sound of the door opening caught her attention. She watched the doctor come out of the room with nervous anticipation. “Can I see her now?”Dr. D. closed the doo
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Alison rocked in the oversized rocker on Nick’s front porch as she admired his thick, powerful muscles flexing while he attacked the weeds threatening his newly sprouted garden. He’d returned to shadow land during the new moon for rejuvenation and regeneration twice without taking her. It was almost time to go again and she hoped that he would say she was finally ready to join him.She was about to go to him and broach the subject when the sound of someone clearing their throat caught her attention.“Excuse me,” said a glamourous looking redhead as she stood near the bottom step of the stairs leading to the porch. “I’m looking for Nick Jackson. Do I have the right place?”Alison’s reply stuck in her throat as she took in every inch of the tall redhead who so innocently inquired the whereabouts of the man she loved. Thoughts of her former boyfriend, Arthur, and the woman he cheated on her with, Sar
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“She’s right, you know,” Nick said with a smirk. “We are in the bedroom a lot.”Alison scowled as she drained her bottle. “Would you prefer we stopped?”“Absolutely not,” he said as he threw his hands in the air. When she got up to get another beer from the refrigerator, he asked, “What’s got you all worked up to the point you’ll be drunk by noon? It can’t be Heloise showing up like that. It’s got to be more.”“Oh, I don’t know,” Alison mused as she opened her beer and tossed the cap toward the trash can that’s lid was stuck in the open position. She was unaccustomed to drinking that much so fast and her vision was already blurred. The cap missed the trash can and skidded across the floor. “Maybe it is your ex-fiancé showing up out of the blue. Maybe I don’t like arrogant beauty queens sauntering
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Martin wore a broad grin on his handsome face as he stepped aside to allow Vanessa entrance into his home. “I thought you’d never get here,” he said as he pulled her into his strong embrace and kissed her long and hard. His brown eyes hinted of twinkling light when he finally released her so that he could search the depths of her own large brown orbs. “You still haven’t told her, have you?”Vanessa shook her head. “She’s so frustrated with Nick not thinking she’s ready yet. I haven’t had the heart.”She reached around to squeeze his backside.He jumped away, laughing, and teased, “Where have you been all my life?”“So, where is it?” she asked as she scurried into the depths of the house like an excited school girl. “Is it down in the basement behind some secret door?”“You make it sound so mysterious,” he chuckle
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Martin clung to the rope that was attached to the slender seat as he was boldly lowered from the helicopter onto the deck of the yacht. When King Rufus said he’d have the helicopter take him to the yacht, he assumed they’d be landing on it and he’d be stepping out onto the deck. Instead, it hovered over the deck of the yacht as the wind swung his body to and fro while he, little by little, was lowered until his feet were able to support him.The helicopter stayed in position while Martin scrambled about the yacht in search of Nick. He found him chained by the wrist and ankle in a small room that looked like it was intended to be used for utility, not to accommodate a human.“So, cousin,” Martin said in a voice that he hoped sounded light hearted. “It seems it’s my turn to rescue you.”“So, it would appear,” Nick said as he struggled to stand. “They have me chained so
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Martin returned to Alison’s home with a heavy heart. He’d spent the night searching for Vanessa in all the places he thought she might go to, but with no luck. Now, he had the burden of having to tell her that her friend didn’t go back to their old apartment, as she’d thought. She was sure to be worried and upset. These weren’t good things to be when one was making their first shift into shadow land.It was late afternoon on the night of the new moon when he knocked on her front door. When he got no response, he walked around to the back of the house and knocked on the kitchen door.Again, nothing,He tried the handle, found the door unlocked, and walked inside.Standing perfectly still, he listened for signs of life in the house. He could hear the faint sounds of love making coming from upstairs. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to decipher that it was Alison and Alfred
