Page 241 of His Flash Mate
The bellowing cries outside grew louder.
What sounded like an explosion shook the house hard enough that I felt it on the bed.
“Konni!”I screamed, pulling harder, afraid he’d burn the place down with me inside.
Windows shook with his answer.
People started yelling inside.Someone ran past my door.A big guy like Javier, but carrying some kind of semi-automatic gun.
“They have guns!”I yelled.
The dragon noise suddenly went quiet.Distant, panicked yelling broke out, followed by a very brief burst of rapid gunfire.
I stopped pulling.Another tear escaped.
“Don’t you dare die,” I yelled.“Or show up empty-handed.I want Hestian and that piece of shit with him, or I will never forgive you.”
Trembling with the effort to keep it together and breathe normally, I watched the doorway.Hoping.Fearing.
A thump and steady rasp came from the hallway several minutes later.
My shoulder heated sharply the second Konni filled the doorway.He was coated in blood and ash, but had never looked better, unlike the two barely recognizable people he was dragging by their ankles.
Gaze locked on me, he dropped them.But he didn’t come closer.He took in my nakedness from the waist down and the cuffs chaining me to the bed.The overlay of his scales rippled in and out of view as he started shaking violently.
“Konni, I really need a hug, a drink of water, and a baseball bat.In that order, please, okay?”
He moved toward me like he was fighting his way through quicksand, and I knew his need to give me what I wanted was the only thing stopping him from going on a killing rampage.
When he reached me, tears started to fall.
His.
“Kitten,” he said brokenly.
“I waited for you,” I said, the accusation surprising me as much as my answering tears.“You didn’t come.”
Then he was holding me, rumbling and comforting me in a way only he could with such a simple touch.
I cried, wishing I could hug him back, but I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want him to stop holding me.Not even for a second.
A scuff of noise came from the door.
Konni’s head whipped toward the sound, and he snarled violently.
Marta stood there, frozen with fear.
“Not her, Konni.”
His growl stopped.
She watched him for half a second then glanced at Hestian and Javier.When she lifted her gaze again, it still held fear, but life too.She bent down and reached inside Hestian’s suit jacket.Then she tossed the key to Konni.
He had me out of the cuffs and fully in his lap a heartbeat later.I rubbed my face against his chest, unconcerned with the blood drying on his clothes as I breathed in his scent.It was stronger than ever and soothed me on a level I didn’t understand.My tears slowed.
One of the men groaned.Konni growled again, but I quickly captured his face between my hands to keep his attention on me.
“You can’t kill them.I want Hestian to hurt in ways he never thought possible.He needs to lose everything.And when he’s at his most desperate, I’ll be there with a contract.Somewhere in this world, there’s a man with a very large dick who likes to fuck old men, and I plan to find him.
