Legacy of Blood - By J. L. McCoy Page 0,78
and I was involuntarily whimpering in pain. It felt like something was pushing up against the back of my eyes and when I opened them, I saw black spots dancing in my vision. I knew from past experience that this meant a blackout was near. I opened my mouth to ask Lochlan to take me upstairs, but I never got a word out before I hit the ground and fainted.
Chapter Twenty-Two
I opened my eyes and saw that I was standing in a dark, dank, disgustingly dirty back alley. Trash littered the ground and water dripped off the tall buildings around me.
“How the hell did I get here?” I whispered to myself as I turned in a circle, taking in my shocking surroundings.
“You are here because I command it!” Amun seethed and I spun around to see him standing in the middle of the alley, his hand tightly wrapped around a terrified Trey’s throat.
“Trey!” I screamed as I stared helplessly at him. Trey’s eyes were wide, he was crying, and there was blood on his shirt. “What did you do to him?! If you hurt him, so help me God I’ll-,”
“SILENCE!” Amun screamed and the buildings all around us shook with his fury. His eyes were black as night and his rage was profound. I had never seen him this angry before. Trey started making a choking sound and I immediately dropped to my knees.
“Please,” I whispered, trying to stay calm but inside I was a blubbering, crying mess. “Please don’t hurt him. You have me. I’m here. Please just let him go, Amun.”
Amun looked down at me with a mixture of hatred, longing, and sadness. “You betrayed me, Damu. I provide you a way to locate me, to come to me, and you try and lead their Army against me? Me, your own father, the very other half of your soul! How could you? How could you betray me?”
I bowed my head in submission and did the one thing I could think of to try and calm his rage; I apologized. “I’m sorry, father. Please forgive me for what I have done. I’ll come with you, right now… but please let Trey go first. He has nothing to do with this.”
“Why?” he whispered, causing me to look up in surprise. “Why did you betray me?”
“I’m sorry,” I whispered back. “I wasn’t thinking clearly. I swear it will never happen again. Please, take me and let’s just go.”
“I offered you the world, Damu, and you spit in my face!” he roared. “I bestowed upon you a gift in which no other being on the entire planet possesses other than myself. I have granted you immortality. I have given you TRUE life. You should be worshiping at my feet, but instead you recruit my sworn enemies and try to direct them into battle against me? We should be celebrating their deaths right now in our marriage bed, but instead I am here arguing with you. In my time, women submitted to men in all matters and did so immediately. Are you finally ready to submit to me now, or shall I have to teach you a lesson? I wonder how good your friend tastes,” he said as he licked his lips and brought Trey’s neck closer to him.
“NO!” I screamed as I flashed to my feet, my arms extended in Trey’s direction. “Please, no. I’m ready to submit to you. Tell me what you want me to do and I will do it. I swear to you. But please, please don’t kill him.”
Amun smiled and pulled his lips away from Trey. “If I had known it would be this simple, I would have used the boy sooner,” Amun smiled in satisfaction. “I guess you just required the right motivation.”
“Don’t do this, Skye,” Trey whispered, his eyes pleading. “I’d rather die than allow you to give yourself to-.” Trey started choking again as Amun lifted him off the ground by his neck.
“Let him go, dammit!” I begged helplessly. “I’m right here. You have me. Take me and be done!”
“Oh, I intend to,” Amun smiled sinisterly. “But you must actually be here for me to take you.”
“What do you mean?” I asked in confusion, looking around at the dark alley around us. “I’m standing twenty feet from you.”
“Not yet,” Amun cocked his eyebrow and then closed his eyes and tilted his head back. “Your body is currently lying on the floor of the nightclub they keep.” He opened his eyes and looked at me