Total pages in book: 109
Estimated words: 103211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 516(@200wpm)___ 413(@250wpm)___ 344(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 103211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 516(@200wpm)___ 413(@250wpm)___ 344(@300wpm)
“I…I don’t believe it,” Seline whispered as she watched Nox’s tall figure walk out of the field of view of the viewscreen. “I don’t believe he would just…just leave me!”
“Believe it,” Master Lendrex snapped. “I am your new Master and your training begins now.”
He took a step towards her and though she tried not to flinch away from him, Seline couldn’t quite manage it. He was so big—almost as big as Nox—and the look on his golden scaled face was filled with cruel delight.
He’s going to hurt me, she thought dismally. And unlike Nox, he wasn’t going to do it reluctantly. Master Lendrex was going to enjoy inflicting pain on her—she was certain of that.
Oh Nox, why—why did you leave me? How could you? How could you?
But she had no answers as Master Lendrex advanced on her—only fear and the knowledge that she would soon be in a great deal of pain.
FORTY
NOX
Nox left the lift that led up to the Upper Disk, but he didn’t leave the Tangle. There were certain things that he needed—certain things that he knew he could get, if he could find the right merchant.
You mean if you can find one in time, whispered an urgent little voice in his head. Remember the Ghost Box—if you think that bastard Lendrex will hesitate to put Seline in it, you’re dead wrong. You have to get what you need and get back to save her before he can inflict that torment on her!
The negative emotions were impossible to deal with—paralyzing and overwhelming. Nox felt frozen—unable to move when he thought of how Seline might, even now, be going through hell and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
He had never prayed before—he hadn’t needed to when he had no emotions. But now he turned his thoughts to the Goddess—the Mother of All Life whom all Kindred worshiped.
“Please, Goddess,” he muttered under his breath. “Let me find what I need—let me be able to save Seline from this terrible fate which she fears so much. And keep her safe until I can get to her.”
He heard no answer to his prayer, but he felt a soothing calm come over him—as though a gentle hand had spread some kind of numbing cream over the wild, anxious, negative emotions that were tormenting him.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Nox plunged into the heart of the Tangle. He had a mission and now that he felt more like his old, logical self, he was certain he could carry it out.
He just prayed that he was in time to save Seline from the Ghost Box.
FORTY-ONE
SELINE
“No—I’m not going in there. You can’t make me! I don’t care what you do!” Seline spoke as bravely as she could, but she was eyeing the clear box in the corner of the Punishment Room with terror in her heart.
It had been hours now, since she’d watched Nox walk away on the video monitor and horrible things had been happening to her, all in the name of her “training” at least according to Master Lendrex.
She’d been beaten with the crop, the cane, a large, heavy wooden paddle with holes in it to cut the wind resistance, and something called a “fire whip” which burned horribly and left red lashes on her pale skin. And he had beaten her everywhere. The place between her legs stung like fire.
All of it was pure torture—none of it was in any way arousing as far as Seline was concerned. First, because most of this was too extreme for her—she had never fantasized about a fire whip! Some people might and more power to them, but it wasn’t for her. But mainly she felt no arousal because she didn’t love or respect the man on the other end of the whip or the cane or the crop or the paddle.
She’d been turned on when Nox used the crop on her, but Master Lendrex beating her did nothing for her—and no matter what he did to her, she still refused his demands.
“I’m telling you for the last time, you little bitch,” he snarled at her now. “Suck my cock the way you sucked your old Master at dinner the other night! If you don’t, you’re going into the Ghost Box!”
“No!” Seline lifted her chin, trying not to let her voice quaver. “And get that thing away from me!” she added, nodding at his semi-erect golden shaft, which he had out of his trousers.
“You’re going to suck me like you sucked your old Master,” Lendrex insisted, sounding frustrated. “That was the whole reason I wanted to buy you—because you gave him such a good blow job—I’d never seen anything like it!”
“And you’ll never see anything like it again because I’m not doing it,” Seline snapped. “Anything you shove in my mouth, I’m going to bite off!”