Feast: A Rough & Twisted Sci-Fi Romance by Lizzy Bequin

Author:Lizzy Bequin [Bequin, Lizzy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Ika was beginning to doubt the wisdom of her plan.

Even with the thick cloak of fur, she was freezing. Numb fingers and toes. Chattering teeth. Shivering muscles. She had underestimated just how cold it was when she set out this morning, and now with thick clouds blotting the sun, it was just getting colder.

Ika had also underestimated how long the trip would take.

She was still very far from Rolf’s den. The river was flowing sluggishly, dragging her icy raft along at a numbingly slow pace. In some places, the water was shallow enough that Ika could use the long spear to push along the riverbed. But soon her bare hands grew achingly cold, and she was forced to tuck them back inside her cloak.

At this rate, it wouldn’t matter that she was leaving no tracks.

Eventually, the ukkur would wake up, and sooner or later they would figure out Ika’s plan and follow her downstream. At the pace she was going, they would catch up with her before she got anywhere near Rolf’s den.

Rot.

Ika huddled and watched the silent trees slowly drifting past on the shore. As she did so, her thoughts began drifting too.

The farther she got from the ukkur, the stronger and more painful that tug at her heart became.

It didn’t make any sense. She shouldn’t miss those awful brutes. After all, they had taken her captive and held her prisoner against her will. Not to mention the other things they had done to her.

Beneath her cloak, Ika’s fingers worried the steel ring dangling around her neck.

She always did that when something was troubling her.

And many questions were troubling her now.

For example, hadn’t Rolf kept her prisoner in a way too? Had he not kept Ika hidden away like a dirty little secret? Had he not made sure her horizons never extended far beyond the boundaries of their territory?

Why?

Ika sighed.

She shouldn’t doubt Rolf. Surely he’d had a good reason for treating her the way he did. Surely.

It was for Ika’s own good, right? For her protection.

And where had she heard those words before? From Thusar’s stern mouth while he had her bent over his lap. While his broad, flat palm thrashed her naked bottom until it felt like it was on fire.

Ika’s hind quarters throbbed at that memory. She thought of all the other shameful things that they had done to her in that cave, and a ticklish shiver ran the length of her spine.

Then something prickled between her shoulder blades.

That was something different.

Danger.

Something was watching her from the shadows of the forest.

Growing up in the woods, Ika had developed a sensitivity for these things, and Rolf had heightened that sensitivity through his training.

Ika knew when she was being stalked.

She must make no sudden movements.

Ika turned her eyes to the shore where the dark trees were gliding past in parallax. At first she saw nothing, just snow-covered limbs and deep shadows.

Then her sharp eyes caught a hint of movement. Something large weaving silently amid the trees. Slowly she dropped her hands to the ice she was crouching on and took up the spear.

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