Beast's Beauty by Christina Wilder & Laney Kaye

Author:Christina Wilder & Laney Kaye [Wilder, Christina & Kaye, Laney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CrpssWorlds Publishing
Published: 2019-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

13

Amelia

Srthet extended his penis—eiljit—toward me. “Take it again and hold tight.”

I gasped. “What?”

A half-smile lifted his upper set of lips. He had two sets, stacked one on top of the other. “While the luindoff seek different prey, we will run.”

Run? Again? I had a bad feeling about all this. “The luindoff chasing us wasn’t the Rampage.” I said it as confirmation, not as a question.

Colors flickered feverishly beneath Sliyah’s purple skin, a pulsating series of lights that would be beautiful on any other occasion. Right now, I was on sensory overload. I couldn’t take much more. “The luindoff are only the first of the challenges.”

“Like…the Hunger Games?” I reeled back from the sinewy couple and the penis dangling in front of my face. Impressive length, but still. Not feeling it at the moment. I frowned. “In the Hunger Games, twelve teams kill each other until only one person survives.”

Sliyah recoiled. “Kill each other?” She and Srthet exchanged long glances that meant something to them but only raised my anxiety level another notch. “The Rampage is not like these games you refer to.”

“How is it different?” A quick look at Jrec showed him staring down at the forest floor, though I assumed he must be listening intently to every word. “I need to know.”

“All could survive the Rampage,” Sliyah said in a silvery voice. Her beautiful eyes overflowed with sympathy. For some reason, I got the feeling a bomb was about to drop, exploding everything—including me—in the vicinity. “But few do. The first team to reach the Liberatium wins.”

“Wins what?”

She placed her hand gently on my arm and squeezed. In any other situation, it would be reassuring. Now? It only made things worse. I wanted to shrug away from her, yell that I didn’t choose this, that I wouldn’t do it. Then find a place to wait until it was over. “In your case, if you win, you may receive life, freedom.”

“Things worth competing for.” Would I then see Lily and be sent back to Earth? Other than Jrec and meeting these two, gentle people, this entire situation had been a nightmare. I had a sinking suspicion I’d never see home again, let alone Lily. “What’s in it for you? Freedom as well?”

“Wealth. Prestige with our people.”

“And if you don’t get to the Liberatium first?”

“If we live, we may compete again.”

If?

“You’re suggesting this is a never-ending spiral of competition until you either win or die trying to get to the Liberatium?” What kind of life must they live that this competition was the better alternative? I squinted around, but it was hard to see through the tiny gaps between the enormous burgundy-veined leaves, let alone the thick mesh of branches surrounding us. “Where is the Liberatium? Can we get there today?” Naïve of me to suggest, but I clung to the belief this would be easy. Facing what would possibly be a terrifying challenge made me want to shrink into the bark behind me. Hide.

Or fall into Jrec’s arms, though he must be tired of me clinging to him for protection all the time.

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