Monster Empire Book 5 by Michael-Scott Earle

Author:Michael-Scott Earle [Earle, Michael-Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael-Scott Earle
Published: 2023-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Thank god,” I exhaled. “I thought you were about to change your mind.”

Safia glanced at me with a look of grim determination. “Once I make my mind up, I do not change it.”

“That’s good to know,” I said after I checked to make sure the duke was still snoring soundly. “But I’m not really sure if we have time to make him suffer first.”

“Of course there is time for that,” Calli whispered. “There is always time to make our enemies scream with anguish before we kill them.”

“Yeah, but screaming would kind of give away our position,” I hissed. “And I’d really rather not alert five thousand soldiers to the fact that we broke into their stronghold.”

“Ken Jewell,” Calli sighed. “If Safia wants to feast on the terror of the duke before he dies, then we should not deny her.”

“But--” I tried to argue again, but my siren wife cut me off by leaning over and whispering so quietly that only I could hear her.

“This is a very good impulse to encourage in her,” Calli said quietly. “It is the impulse of a monster and not a human, and we should always encourage anything that would make her a more fitting wife for you.”

“Calli, I--” But this time, I stopped mid-sentence when the duke started to stir in his ruffled nightgown.

My siren wife moved first. The bedframe had thick curtains hanging down around it, and Calli immediately pulled two of the fabric cords binding them loose. After Safia set the candle down on one of the nightstands, Calli tossed her one of the cords and threw the other one to me. Then she grabbed a pillow that had fallen off the bed, nodded to both of us as if we’d actually gone over a plan, and pounced on the duke.

Calli jumped up by his head and pushed the pillow down onto his face so hard that I thought she might actually snap his neck before we even got started. He started screaming and thrashing around, but his screams were pretty muffled by the pillow.

Safia and I instantly moved forward to bind his wrists together, followed by his ankles.

Even after he was bound hand and foot, he kept trying to shout for help, but Calli kept the pillow firmly in place over his mouth but shook her head in disappointment every time he tried to shake her off.

“Let me calm him down,” the blonde siren said.

She only hummed a few notes of a song, but when she grew quiet again, the duke had completely stopped struggling.

“Shit, is he dead?” I asked.

“No, just calmer,” Calliope chuckled as she slipped back off the bed and took the pillow with her. “Terrified, but now mostly just terrified of what will happen if he screams.”

Duke Bellfrey looked equally scared shitless and fucking furious, and I couldn’t tell if his red face was from almost being smothered to death or from his rage at being tied up in his own bed. I grabbed him by the lace scruff around his throat, dragged him over to a chair, and pushed him into it.

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