Blood Red (39 page)

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as she came violently. She dug her nails into his shoulders. Wolf continued to slam into her, forcing her to endure her climax, until he also came.

He rested on her. His hands still wrapped in her hair. “Thank you,” he whispered into her ear.

She wrapped her arms around him and held him until they both quieted and were able to move again.

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W
olf stood in a great green field. The wind
blew his long black hair around him. His
eyes flashed in the bright sunlight. He was
smiling.

Red walked toward him. She was smiling. Her arms
were outstretched toward him, beckoning him to her.

They met. They touched. Wolf enveloped her in his
strong arms. She nestled into the crook of his arm, feeling
safe and secure…and loved. She sighed into him.

“I’ve been searching for you, Red. I’ve been looking for
you my whole life.” His voice was high and hollow.

Red flinched under his hold. She raised her head and
looked up at his face. He was grinning. But his face was
changing. It filled out, and wrinkled. His blue eyes
darkened to hazel. His hair turned gray and shortened.

Red was looking into her Granny’s face.

“Now, my darling, I can finally kill you.” She lifted her
hand. A knife glinted in the sun. She drove it down into
Red’s chest.

Red jolted awake, a scream stuck in her dry throat, and her heart pounding loudly in her head. She looked about her. Everything was upside down. She tried to lift her head, but it was heavy, and her neck 77

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was sore. Her arms pulled at her shoulders, and her legs screamed with pain. She took in a ragged breath and raised her head.

She was hanging by her chains on a steel rod sticking out of the stone wall. And she was still naked. Her buttocks swayed only inches above the ground. She hung in a V shape. Her feet and hands pointed up, nearly touching each other. She felt like a side of beef on a hook preparing to be sliced into choice cut steaks.

The cool air circled over her skin. She quivered.

She felt it most at the intersection of her legs. Her sex was exposed to the elements and prying eyes. She wondered how long she’d been hanging here. From the pain radiating throughout her muscles, she thought hours, for sure.