Outside the Flight: (Scarlett Redborne, Book 1) by S.J. Grundvig

Author:S.J. Grundvig [Grundvig, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Scarlett

I wake up and blink my eyes to orient myself. I cannot move my arms or my legs. I am only wearing my underwear. I gasp and struggle not to scream. I am on Victor’s torture table. I look to my left and Victor is standing next to me. The anger on his face his terrifying.

“I told you what would happen.” He taps his open palm with a small witch cursed knife.

My heart rate picks up. I do my very best to keep my expression blank. He doesn’t like it when I react. He despises my tears, my anger fuels his, it is best to be blank. Empty. He can’t touch me if I refuse to feel.

“I told you that you were destined to remain here. I told you how important my experiments are to my work. I ordered you to stay, yet you disobeyed.” He clicks his tongue. “Now I am forced to punish you. A waste of time really. I have much more important things to be doing. I need to be moving my plans forward, and here I am stuck dealing with…you.” He says the last word with undisguised contempt.

He shakes his head at me and then secures my head. I won’t be able to move at all. This is the worst punishment he gives me. I am frozen and must endure whatever he does without making any sound. Every sound increases my punishment 10-fold. The first time he did this I was in here for 7 hours. If I don’t react at all it only lasts one. My body starts to tremble, and my eyes start to fill up with tears. I close my eyes to hold them in and start counting my breath, in and out. My body jerks as he makes the first cut.

My eyes snap open and I scream before I can recognize Ezekiel’s frantic face above me. I start to tremble and I try to push up to sitting. He scoops me up and cuddles me on his lap.

“Tell me.” He demands, holding me tightly.

I close my eyes and shake my head. I turn into him and wrap my arms around his neck. I breath in his scent and my heartrate slows. My dragon nudges me and curls back into her protective ball around my heart. I can’t stop trembling and I don’t want to answer him. I don’t want to talk about it yet. If I’m going to have to tell them about Victor, I will tell all of them at the same time and not in the middle of a nightmare. Thanks to my loving uncle they probably already think I have some horrible condition, and here I am waking up with nightmares.

The nightmare reminds me that although I feel safe here, I need to tell my mates the truth about Victor. About the promises he made to harm them if they claimed me. I must push past my fear of rejection and be honest. They have a right

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