Handling the Hybrid by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson

Thirteen

Piercing shrieks filled the air and blood sprayed up and spattered down like rain. Crimson droplets were everywhere as Tandy sagged against the rough wooden post, crying. She wasn’t sure if the warm wetness on her cheeks was tears or blood but she didn’t care—she just wanted to get out of here! Just wanted to be home in her bedroom in Aunt Zora’s building away from all the horrible things that had happened to her.

“Little girl?” she heard a hoarse voice ask.

Turning her face, she saw Vrox standing over her.

“Vrox?” Dimly she knew that he had saved her—she had seen part of what he’d done, ripping up the plant that was trying to invade her and then fighting with the slave—which must be where all this blood had come from. But she was too much in shock to really register anything.

“You okay?” he asked and slumped beside her. His motions were stilted and awkward, as though it hurt him to move.

“I…I think so. It…it hurt so much but it…I think it only got a little way inside me.” Tandy tugged at her wrists, now slippery with blood and the fluid from the plant. “Please, Vrox—help me!”

“Of course, little girl.” Raising up, he reached for the thongs that held her to the rough, wooden post. The knots were slippery and wet and after a moment of fumbling with them, he made a low growl of frustration in his throat and snapped them both instead.

“Thank you, Vrox.” Tandy sank down, grateful to be free.

“Welcome, little girl. C’mere.” He scooped her into his lap and held her to his chest, though his entire big body continued to vibrate and tremble.

Tandy didn’t understand why until Mistress Sinda’s voice pierced the haze around her.

“Tandace? Oh my goodness, Tandace—what happened here?”

Tandy looked up to see the other Mistress’s face wavering in an out of focus. She tried to explain but when she opened her mouth, no words came out.

“I’ll tell you what happened.” Vrox’s voice was a low, painful growl. “That fucking Mistress Tillabong tried to have Tandy raped by the fucking shaft plants. Then when that didn’t work, she told her slave to do it.” He nodded at the slumped, headless body of the slave nearby, its ragged neck lying in a growing puddle of blood.

Tandy looked away from the sight, feeling she might be sick.

“But what—” Mistress Sinda began and then a new face hovered into view.

“I found it! Here is the control to the Kindred’s collar!” The new Mistress—one of the Sacred Seven, Tandy thought wearily—was holding a small black box. “Mistress Tillabong had it. But they’re still trying to get her out of the shaft-plant bed.”

“Let me see.” Mistress Sinda took the slippery black rectangle carefully and looked at it, her eyes going wide. “My goodness!” she exclaimed. “The pain setting is on and it’s set to maximum.”

“Yeah,” Vrox rasped. “If you could turn it off I’d be fucking obliged.”

Mistress Sinda pressed a button and the big Kindred collapsed with a groan, leaning back heavily against the wooden post where Tandy had been tied.

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