Viper (Naga Brides Book 1) by Naomi Lucas

Author:Naomi Lucas [Lucas, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-19T23:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Consequences

Vruksha

Sunlight streams through the pines of the forest to greet me. I groan, staring at it.

“You’re awake.”

My gaze cuts to Zhallaix sharpening a knife across from me. I struggle to strike him with my tail, but I find I can’t move. I’m bound. Ropes have been tied around my wrists, pulling them apart and anchoring me to the tree at my back.

“Gemma,” I hiss. “Where’s Gemma?”

Zhallaix puts his weapon away, hooking it with the bones he wears on his bicep. “Don’t try and move.”

“What have you done to my female?” I struggle against my bonds, searching the forest for Gemma.

“Ssshe ran.”

I wheeze out a breath. Relief and horror hit me hard. “She’s not in your clutches,” I rasp. But she’s also not here, which means she’s alone, in the forest, completely at the mercy of the wilds and beasts that roam it.

Zhallaix hums, unconcerned.

“Let me go,” I urge, nearly shaking.

Zhallaix cocks his head. His one eye hoods as he watches me.

“I need to go after her.”

“She did not have a tail,” Zhallaix responds.

“Of course she didn’t!” I hiss. “Releassse me!”

“Where did she come from?”

I snarl. “I don’t have time for this. She’s not safe alone in the forest. She does not have claws, fangs, or venom to protect herself.” She does not have me!

“Humans are extinct, and a naga female hasn’t roamed these lands in over a hundred years. How is it possible you have one at all? What is she? A robot?”

I stop fighting my bonds when it occurs to me that Zhallaix does not know about the humans at the facility or the ship that descended from the sky.

How humans came out of it took over the old ruins—that there were females amongst those who landed.

He has no idea about Zaku’s deal to trade technology for their females. He doesn’t know.

Zhallaix destroys all tech he comes across.

I stop struggling as an idea forms. “I’ll tell you if you let me go.”

“Or I can leave you tied up and find her myself.”

“You could… or you could have one for your own, one who isn’t already claimed and filled with spill,” I growl.

Zhallaix crosses his arms, and I know I had him. The threaded muscles of his arms bulge, stretching white and red scars. Some of those are scars I’ve given him. There’s a gouge on his side, half-strung up with plant fibers to keep it closed. Blood gushes from it. I did that.

I have a few open wounds too, but Zhallaix didn’t string mine up.

Why would he? He’d prefer me dead.

So why am I not?

“Where did she come from?” he asks again.

“She may be the only one,” I lie. “Or not.”

Zhallaix glares at me and reaches behind him. He brings my spear forward.

I release venom at the sight of it. Zhallaix is not only putting Gemma’s life in danger but also has my spear? Anger floods me seeing his hand wrapped around the shaft.

I hiss as he nears, bracing for whatever is to come. He stabs down on my tail.

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