Their Pretty Little Monster by Mila Young

Author:Mila Young [Young, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Two

SAGE

I gasp for air, startling awake, convinced I’m back in Wolfe’s bed, having slept an entire day after the strangest dream of spending a day with Nyko. Opening my eyes, yawning, I roll onto my back, the bed rock-hard and cold.

Wait, this isn’t right!

That’s when a horrifying hiss fills the room.

Heart in my throat, I jolt to a sitting position. And it all comes back quickly—the day with Nyko, the market, the truth about my father, the realization of why I’m really in this world. But right now, none of that compares to the immediate terror of where I’ve woken up.

Around me spreads out a strange room with polished stone floors, no furnishings, and the walls and ceiling resemble a cave. Grooves are etched into the walls, jagged stone hanging from above, and the small lights embedded in the rock steal enough of the shadows to show me I’m in really big trouble.

Where the hell am I?

“H-hello?” I call out, assuming I’m still on the vessel, not on some island, based on the spotlights in the room. Turning on the spot, taking in the large enclosure, I can’t see a way out, not from where I’m standing, but there has to be a way out, maybe in the shadows.

I rub the side of my neck where I was jabbed, fear tumbling through me as I realize that whoever attacked me in the woods has to be responsible, right? I was barely a few steps out of the courtyard when they struck. My skin shivers—they’ve been watching me the whole day?

Scanning the room, I start walking around, searching for a door… I entered the room somehow.

Then that hissing comes again.

I flinch hard, my heart slamming into my rib cage. Whipping around, across the cave-like room, something shifts in the shadows.

It slithers out, and the fear, the shock—it all crashes into me.

My scream rushes out involuntarily as I see the same creature from the woods. It’s here and has me trapped. I back up, hugging myself.

“Gods, this can’t be happening.”

An elongated body covered in black scales glistens in the dim light with six long legs with webbed feet. Being so much closer to it is terrifying, but I can see the details more now—the fangs from lips peeled back over them. It lifts itself on its hind legs, towering, and its long face with gleaming eyes pierces right through me.

Fates, I don’t want to be swallowed by the snake creature.

My breath hitches, my hands shaking as they search for anything to defend myself with. I have empty pockets, and there’s nothing around me. Shit!

“No, no, no,” I whisper, my voice trembling. I keep backing up until my back hits the cold, jagged wall. The thing hisses again, its forked tongue flicking out, tasting the air, tasting my fear, no doubt. Its eyes are locked on to mine.

“Stay back!” I shout, but my voice wavers, betraying my terror.

The snake beast doesn’t seem to care, dropping back onto its belly, those limbs bent and coming toward me.

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