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"Yes, that’s exactly what I mean, you pathetic fuck," Shock clarified

Anka cried out again, the sound rife with frustration She kicked and flailed, grabbing at the buttons on her pants and shoving at her black tank "Help!"

As she grabbed a handful of her shirt, she scratched her way up her abdomen Blood seeped up froainst her pale skin She shoved at one of the straps of her top and ended up scratching a deep path down her ar questions or perrabbed Anka by the wrists

"Stop" He coree tears leaked fro her cheeks "Help!"

"I want to, love What can I do?"

She began panting and twisting her ar helplessly "Touch Me"

Fuck, he wanted to So badly He felt Shock’s stare on hiazes connected As Anka cried ht to Anka, like a dog pissing on a fire hydrant Lucan sed back his bile Anka caiven the severity of the spell affecting her He would concede to Shock ten tiht another day A world without Anka? Unthinkable

He leaned up in Shock’s face "Take her upstairs If she needs sex, give it to her Fix her, whatever it takes"

"Daht," Shock snarled, then spun aith a still squir for him For help For sex After his exit, an eerie hush settled over the room

Bram clapped him on the back "As hard as that ht choice, ically, yes Inside, he felt as if he’d signed away his right to Anka forever Like he’d perray clouds with his oo hands Like he’d never knoarain But if that’s what it took to keep her alive, he’d endure it If she died, though… He’d anna le Fay down and murder the bitch in the most horrific way possible

Duke and Mason excused the up with the BBC and any local news authorities to see if any word of Morganna’s attack had leaked out The Wolvesey tere, for once, somber They promised to teleport themselves to Swansea and keep watch over the rest of the feht physically, in case the Anarki careed, and the twins had already spent a bit of ti with the ladies to start the to help

Caden threw an arm around Lucan’s shoulders "How about I take you to The Witch’s Brew and get you sloppy drunk for a few hours?"

"No"

His brother looked over to Braed

"Come on, brother," Caden tried to coax "You don’t need to stay for this After a pint or ten, you’ll no longer give a shit about anything"

"I’ht" He sed, knowing it would rip him open and tear out as left of his heart to listen to her give her body to that bastard, to hear her cries of pleasure as Shock took her But if he gave Anka what she needed to be well again, Lucan illing to endure any agony, hear every one of her torturous sounds, just to know she’d cohed, then nodded "Let’s sit Get comfortable"

"And drink" Caden shoved him to a sofa in Bralass It was aht hit it, like the color of Anka’s eyes when passion overtook her

And Shock would be seeing that soon He would be pulling away her clothes, taking herhis cock-- He couldn’t finish that thought

Lucan slalanced at Braht the decanter over and poured another glass full of the booze Hell, he hadn’t taken the time to taste it Didn’t knohat it was Didn’t care Didn’t pause before he sed the rest of the glass again without another thought

The warmth of the alcohol started to coat his bloodstreah his syste hi to punch a wall or rip soitated--no, furious--he felt Godda bastard If Shock let Anka hurt herself again, if he harlass frolass, you’re only going to hurt your hand Less ti with Anka, then"

"True Thank you" He had to get his head screwed on straight, but he couldn’t do that sitting here like a fucking idiot, waiting for her first scream of pleasure to erupt He leapt to his feet and prowled to the , staring out at the dead grass browning the lawn The gray sky hid every ray of sunlight, smothered the warmth Wasn’t that a metaphor for his life? The last three months had been bleak in every way Lost, without any way to reach Anka emotionally, he’d used every bit of his will to hold hiether But now… God, how could he endure this?

For her, he had to

Bra and a chime announced that Ice and Sabelle had arrived The trio filed in quickly No one said a word The silence slowly killed, and all Lucan wanted to do was crawl into that fucking bottle and lose himself until this ordeal was over

"Where are they, mate?" Ice asked Bram

Bram’s reply was quiet "Upstairs"

Inside, Lucan shoved down his rage He wanted Shock dead and would do whatever necessary to make that happen In fact, the sooner the better Like now