Monsters, Book Two: Hour of the Dragon by Heather Killough-Walden

Author:Heather Killough-Walden [Killough-Walden, Heather & Killough-Walden, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-nine – Unknown Location

Randall sighed heavily and pulled the ruined bandages from his prisoner’s leg. “You need to stop moving. Every time you start fighting like this, your heart beats too fast and you bleed too much.” He tsked her, tossed the bandages in the nearby receptacle, and grabbed a new roll of gauze. In actuality, he had plenty of gauze and he didn’t really mind that she was bleeding. But he was willing to bet she did. “Before long, you’re going to start feeling sick. You don’t want that on top of everything else, do you? You’ll be in the same boat as your friend here.”

He glanced up at the other prisoner, who was tied in an identical chair, her legs to the chair legs, her hands cuffed behind her back, her body duct taped to the chair back, but who had tears streaming down her cheeks and a piece of duct tape dangling by one corner of her mouth.

He’d removed it most of the way for her so that she could continue to throw up as needed, however he left it there as well as a reminder that if she acted up – he could just tape her right back up again. That would get messy real fast.

There was a bucket beside her chair. The poor thing had food poisoning. In all fairness, he’d offered her a good dose of Ondansetron for the nausea; the medicine worked miracles for nausea, even food poisoning-induced. But she’d refused “anything but your stupid-ass head on a mother fucking platter, tu hijo loco de puta!” so he’d given up and just let her vomit.

She was lucky in a way. Her compromised immune system guaranteed they use her friend for the blood they needed to send their message. No other form of proof said, “We have your friends and we’re not lying” better than a little bit of blood.

“You know… she’s too smart to….” The one named Carmen paused in what she was trying to say, and what could he do but politely wait for her to finish? She was putting in such a brave amount of effort, and he really did feel for her. To some extent.

“Too smart to meet with you.” Carmen swallowed hard. “Anna will know it’s a trap.”

Randall pushed his glasses up his nose and nodded. “Yes, we’re assuming she’ll know as much. However, your best friend has dedicated her entire existence to helping others. She will absolutely wish to meet us. It’ll be the wardens who stop her.”

Carmen and her companion, Piper – who had to remain gagged, or Randall’s migraine began to take over – both looked at Randall quizzically.

“Let me guess. You’re wondering why we would bother if we know she won’t be allowed to go through with it?”

Carmen looked at her friend, who in turn shrugged. That was a good sign. It meant she wasn’t too weakened by blood loss, at least not yet. They were both still in good shape. That actually comforted Randall.

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