The Naughty Box (9 books in 1 box set) by Davis SJ & Steel Riley & Volley Rue & Kay Piper & Chelle & Carmichael Kim & Delshamagus Candi & Prince Nikki & Grey Nicolette

Author:Davis, SJ & Steel, Riley & Volley, Rue & Kay, Piper & Chelle & Carmichael, Kim & Delshamagus, Candi & Prince, Nikki & Grey, Nicolette [Davis, SJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hot Ink Press
Published: 2013-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 41.

The music never started. When the lock clicked open, Lena was taken by surprise. She curled on her side, feigning sleep. Aurora had drifted off an hour earlier. Lena could hear her breath, steady and soft across the room.

Odin closed the door behind him. He walked across the floor to Aurora, checked her pulse and pulled the blanket free. Lena watched her eyes open wide as he perched beside her on the bed. He reached into his pocket and withdrew a syringe, injected her in the arm, and tucked the blanket back around her. As Lena watched, he bent to kiss her, smoothing her hair back gently. “Be good, Aura,” he whispered. “I’ll be back for you later.”

Turning toward Lena, he withdrew a second syringe. She sat up and pushed herself as far into the corner as she could. “Leave me alone,” she said.

Odin smiled. “I think not, Selene. I’m leaving for a little while and I haven’t broken you in yet.” He nodded across the room at Aurora. “Even my little pet sleeps when I head to town.”

“You’re going back?” Lena said. “You were just there yesterday.”

Odin raised his eyebrows. “You sound concerned.”

Lena shrugged. “You used to go once a week.”

“That was before. I have new business there now.”

“Maeve?”

He laughed. “You’re quite astute, Selene. Are you jealous?”

“Don’t you think that she’s a little young for you?”

“You are jealous! Are you jealous of my little Aura, too?” He reached to touch her cheek.

Lena recoiled. “I’m not jealous of anyone, Odin. I’m tired, I’m confused, and I want to go home.”

“You are home,” he said. He held the syringe up and removed the plastic cover from the needle. “Hold still. One dose, sleep, two doses, death.”

“No,” she said stubbornly.

“Don’t make this hard.”

“No,” she said again.

“Okay, then…if that’s what you want, we’ll do it the hard way.” He was upon her before she could move. Pinning her face down on the bed, he wrenched her arm back and plunged the needle in. She watched him from a wavering distance as he removed her pants and parted her legs. There was pressure when he entered her, then nothing.

Aurora was sitting on the edge of her bed when she woke up. It was dusky again. She pushed herself against the wall and looked at her watch. Six pm. “How long have I been asleep?” she asked.

“Two days.”

Lena shook her head to clear the fog. “Two days?” she repeated. “I’ve been asleep for two days?”

Aurora nodded. “He put you on an IV. Precedex. I told you not to piss him off. What did you do? Did you try to escape?”

“No.”

Lena put one foot on the floor and tested her balance, teetering slightly as she took a step. “I told him I didn’t want an injection.”

“You made him mad.”

“Apparently it doesn’t take much.”

Someone had fashioned a diaper around her. Lena removed it and threw it into the toilet, disgusted. “Did you do this?”

Aurora nodded.

“Thanks.”

Odin had reduced her to an infant with his needles and his drugs; her humiliation was complete.