Chapter 12 Holly
HOLLY
Iwas in a tiny, cramped room. Buried deep. Hidden in deep violet shadows inside my mind.
I knew I was dreaming—yet there was an element of reality here too. The walls glittered with dark purple lights and signals streaming in beautiful curtains all around me. Sort of like the Matrix—though the code flowing around me was generated by mrions.
And Syko.
I could sense his touch in the coding, even though I didn’t know what it meant. He’d given them instructions to help protect me. Which meant this quiet room must be safe. A place where I could hide my thoughts from DSC.
Red and piercing white pulses flared around me like torches and spotlights. They were near. Searching. Combing through my mind, trying to scour out my memories. Especially the mating. They really wanted me to forget.
Here in the private room, I could smell his scent and remember. Everything.
He’d hurt me. Yes. He’d scared me. But he’d shifted for me, even when DSC couldn’t force him to transform out of his BGR++.
He’d delayed his own gratification until I managed to come.
He’d taken the time to touch me and learn my body.
Even though he’d been imprisoned without food or contact for months.
When DSC could have knocked him out and taken me away before he could finish the deed.
He’d made an impossible scenario something I never wanted to forget.
I even wanted to do it again. No prison cell.
No prying eyes. Just me and him and a nice big bed.
I wanted to lay with my cheek on his chest and let him play with my hair and stroke my back.
I wanted him to look at me like Kroktl looked at Natalie.
Like he’d stop breathing for her if that was her wish.
Not that she ever would want him to suffer, let alone die.
The room shifted, tightening around me. A dark, hushed cocoon. It might have been claustrophobic except it felt like his chest billowing beneath me with every breath. If I listened hard enough, I could imagine his heartbeat thudding beneath my cheek. Feel the rough texture of his scales.
Tucked against a gigantic, mutated Tyrannosaurs Rex’s heart.
Nothing could harm me here.