Things are looking up!
CHAPTER 7
Kataline
Pain rips through me as my body arches off the wall, trying to get off the hook. The sinister voice is loud in my head. “I will not let you do this! You must complete your task!”
“No!” I scream back at the damn voice which is plaguing me. “I won’t do it! No matter what. You cannot make me!”
My body is shaking and banging against the wall. The room seems to be spinning and I feel as if I’m falling away. Into a dark abyss.
Arms run around me and words are murmured. My head is pounding and the loudest voice screams like it’s being tortured. The other voices join in, but they’re moving further away.
The sounds keep going until all I can hear are the words, “Come back to me, Kataline.”
My breath comes back and I inhale deeply then open my eyes to find Kerr wrapped around me. His lips press against my neck.
“Kerr, I’m okay.” I can barely breathe. My body hurts.
He takes me off the hook and lets my hands free. Pushing the robe off my body, Kerr runs his hands over the back of my shoulder.
“Oww!” I flinch away from his touch.
“You have a bruise here.” His lips touch it. His hand runs over my bottom. “You have bruises all over your ass, Kataline. It looks as if you’ve been beaten.”
“I recall my body smacking hard against the wall.”
He picks me up in his strong arms and takes me to sit on the bed. “I should have strapped you to the soft bed instead of hanging you on the wall. I didn’t think about how it might try to get off the hook and hurt you in the process.”
Naked, he has me on his lap and strokes my hair. “Soon this will be over, Baby. Soon we’ll be on our way to Euthenia in a cloaked vessel. Soon whatever is inside you making this happen will be removed.”
A pain starts deep inside me. As if a knife is plunging into my stomach. I take in a sharp breath and grab at my stomach. “Kerr!”
His arms wrap around me and he holds me tight, but the pain doesn’t stop. “Kataline, don’t let it take you. We’re so close.”
My body starts shaking and I fly off his lap and into the wall. He rushes to get to me as I’m held to the wall by some invisible source.
He gets close enough to reach me and suddenly he’s thrown backwards and hits the opposite wall.
“Leave her alone!” the sinister voice shouts out of my mouth.
I struggle to get myself under control. But the pain in my head is back and the pain in my abdomen is nearly killing me.
I watch Kerr struggle to get back to me. And he seems to be making progress as he moves against what looks like a strong wind. Then he flies back again, pinned to the wall.
His face is turning red as it looks like he can’t breathe. I cannot allow this to happen to him.
No longer able to keep the voices away, I close my eyes and concede to the sinister one. “Take me! Leave Kerr alone and take me!”
I can hear Kerr screaming, “No! Kataline, do not give up!”
But I have to or this thing inside me will kill the man I love. Inside my mind, I tell it again, “Take me. I will fight you no longer.”
My body falls off the wall and Kerr is picking me up before I know it. I’m myself. Not the monster I thought I’d become.
“Quick, take these,” Kerr tells me as he pushes something into my mouth.
They feel small and round and I swallow to take them down. He gives me a drink of water and picks me up and puts me on the bed.
“What was that, Kerr?” I ask as my head feels light and my body listless.
“That will put you to sleep for the rest of our journey back to my planet. It will keep that thing from taking you and making you do things you don’t want to. You will sleep and I’ll carry you to where we need to go.” His hand moves over my brow and his lips touch my cheek.
“Thank you, Kerr. When I wake again this horribleness will be over, won’t it?”
He nods and presses his lips to mine. “Sleep, my love. I will take care of everything. Worry about nothing. It will be over soon.”
My eyelids feel heavy and I’m barely aware of him pulling a purple, long dress over my head and body to dress me. He lifts my body and places the golden cloak, he said is made from a protective material, around my shoulders.
He lays me back and Bet steps inside. A couple of bags in her arms. “Oh! She looks so tired. Did you give her the pills?” she asks Kerr.
“I did and they seem to be working. The thing inside her has grown so strong it nearly choked me to death,” he says as he looks through the bags.
My heart skips a beat as I hear him talk of nearly choking to death. The thing inside me is quiet. All the voices are eerily quiet. I feel as if I’m falling.
The light fades away and I am going under some deep blue water. It’s warm and cozy and I want to be here. Floating in the strange depths and feeling like this is amazing.
I never want to leave this place with its warm, soothing waters.
Just leave me here, in this place, forever!
CHAPTER 8
Kerr
With Kataline safely in a deep sleep, I take the opportunity to tell my father the plan. With a quick knock at his door, he opens it and stands in his robe, looking at me.
“Kerr, what is it?” His face is pale, and he looks weaker than I’ve ever seen him.
“Father, with Bet’s help, I’ve come up with a plan which should keep you safe.”
He clucks his tongue and turns away from me. “Son, let it go. I’ve accepted my fate.”
“Father,” I take him by the shoulder and turn him back to look at me. “I’m taking the emergency shuttle and taking Kataline to Euthenia to be scanned and the thing inside her will be removed. I’m going to use the secret tunnels to get into the palace and I will kill whoever has taken over. Then you will be able to land safely and this whole thing will be over.”
“That sounds awfully easy, Son. I don’t think whatever it is that’s inside your wife will be stopped that easily.” He turns away again and goes to sit on the edge of his bed.
“Well, your faith in me is staggering, Father!” I make sure my tone is heavily laced with sarcasm.
“I’m sorry. It seems I have more faith that whoever has done this to me will surely succeed. I do deserve it after all.” His eyes look everywhere but at me.
“You still don’t wish to tell me what you’ve done which makes you think you deserve to be destroyed?” I ask as he looks like a man who has accepted death already.
With a shake of his head, he says, “You will find out soon and you will hate me.”
“Nothing could make me hate you. You are my father. We all make mistakes. We all do things which hurt others. I’m sure you’re not to be held any more accountable than any other creature.” I place my hand on my father’s shoulder. “Let me do this and try to get some faith about things. If you have committed a terrible crime, then we can decide how you can best make up for that. Death isn’t the answer. It never is.”
With a wave of his hand, he says, “Go along and follow your plan. It won’t be long before you hear what I’ve done and then you will leave me on this ship and allow them to do what they plan to. You can remove whatever device you think is making your wife a weapon, but they will have a back-up plan. Of that I’m sure.”
My father stands up and his arms run around me. His lips touch my cheek. “Father, I feel as if this is goodbye.”
“It is, Son. Just remember I have always loved you. No matter what I’ve done, I have always loved you.” He lets me go and I feel something is so wrong.
“I wish you would tell me what you did, Father.”
His head shakes and he goes to lie on his bed. “Leave me, Son. I am so tired. So damn tired of running from what I’ve done.”
“Goodbye, Father. See you on Euthenia soon.” I leave the room and wonder what the man could have done.
Kataline thinks he
had something to do with my mother’s death, but I know he didn’t. It has to be something else. No matter what it is, he doesn’t deserve to die for it.
As I get back to our room I see Kataline’s eyes opened. A smile crosses her red lips and she wiggles her finger at me.
“You’re awake!” I say with surprise.
“I am and I have a hunger for you.” She gets out of the bed and slips the cloak off and pulls the bottom of her long dress up as she makes her way to me.
“Kataline, there really isn’t time…”
Her hands are pushing at my pants and set me free quickly. Her head goes down to take me in her mouth and intense pleasure goes through me.
“Well, if we make it quick,” I say as I run my hands through her long, dark tresses.
Her mouth is hot, and she moves it quickly, igniting an instant fire inside me. A need to be inside her fills me and I pull her head up and pick her up and take her to lie on the edge of the bed.
With one quick motion, I yank her down until her ass is on the edge of the bed and push her dress up to her hips. She’s already arching them up to me as I bury myself inside her.
She moans and closes her eyes. I take her legs and hold them as I thrust into her, making her make crazy sounds as she gyrates her body.
The pills seem to have made her very aroused. And I’m loving it!
Her breasts move up and down as I plunge into her over and over. Her breathing is sporadic and uneven as she shouts, “Fuck me! Fuck me hard!”
I thought I was doing that but I increase my speed and the force of my thrusts to make her feel more. A heat starts inside her, and she runs her hands all over her body as she climaxes and shouts the word, yes, constantly.
Her body clenches around my hard cock and I let it go, seeking the ecstasy she’s enjoying. She sits up as my cock jerks inside her and her eyes fly open as she grips my ass in hands which seem to be much stronger than they should be.
And then I see the color and the blackness in her eyes holds my attention. Her lips peel back into a harsh grin. My heart stops beating.
“Kataline, what have you done?” I ask in horror.
A laugh comes from her mouth and I struggle to get her to let me go. Her strength is unreal. The whole thing is so unreal.
The deep, velvety voice speaks, “You are more enjoyable than I thought you’d be. Now, this time, let’s get rough.”
She jerks me down to her as she lies back and refuses to let me go. “Stop, Kataline!”
“She’s gone. It was you who put her to sleep. You have no one to blame but yourself for me being able to take her completely. Thank you.” She pulls my hair with a hand she took off my ass.
Then her other hand takes another large lock of my hair and she pulls my face to hers. Our lips touch and her teeth take my bottom lip between them.
Her bite is harsh and I taste blood as I feel the pinch of her breaking my skin. I press my hands to her narrow shoulders and try to gain my freedom.
We hover in the air then she turns and I’m on the bottom. She presses her body to mine and moans as she moves up and down my cock.
“I’m going to fuck you until you can take no more,” the deep voice says and I find myself cringing.
Her body tightens around me as she pumps her body over my helpless dick. I want this to stop.
“Kataline, Kataline listen to me,” I say.
The creature continues to gyrate all over me as she says, “She is not here. You will not see her again. I have her put away somewhere she doesn’t even care to come back from. I am your wife now, Kerr.”
A laugh that fills my heart with dread comes from her. Her head is pulled back and I reach out and give her a hard slap in an attempt to wake her up from the deep sleep the pills put her in.
“Rough! Yes!” She rears back and slaps me. “Do me again!”
There’s a big red welt on her face where I hit her. I won’t do it again. It did no good anyway.
I yank her hair to one side and it jerks her in that direction, giving me enough leeway to turn her over and now I’m on top and I press her down and get off her.
She screams in anger as I quickly shove my cock back into the safety of my pants. She flies at me with a shriek and the next thing I know I’m laid out on the floor.
The dress she has on falls down back down to cover her as she walks towards me. Her hand juts out as I try to get up. A pressure holds me to the floor.
“Stay where you are, Kerr. It is time for me to do what I was sent here for. I’ll be back for you after I’ve completed my task. You and I will have a long marriage. In this one, I will be dominating you. Over and over, Kerr, I will take you like I want to and you will be powerless to stop me.”
The door slides open and she leaves the room. I try to move, but I can’t. I’m paralyzed and have no idea how long this will last.
I try to shout out for help but my voice is weak and I know no one will hear me.
She will get to my father and in moments, he will be dead. I close my eyes and hope he has the common sense to hide from her.
Over the intercom comes the captain of the ships frantic voice, shouting, “Red alert, red alert. Princess is on the bridge, staging a take-over. All hands to the bridge now….”
A loud banging sound stops his words, and the intercom goes silent.
She’s close to taking control of this ship and I have no idea what she’ll do once that happens. But the information is out there so my father should be able to hide now that he knows.
All of a sudden the ship goes entirely dark. It lurches as the engines die and we begin drifting.
She’s taken all the power from it. From my position on the floor, I can see the ship next to us and the lights go out on it as well.
She’s managing to take the power from all of the ships somehow.
She’s more powerful than I ever imagined possible. And now we are dead in space and at her mercy. Only Kataline is nowhere in her body right now.
But the pills will wear off and then she can try to take her body back over.
But will the devastation she’s causing be too much to allow her to live? And how many of us will the thing she’s become allow to live?
Now will start the Uprising series!
Get ready!
Pressed Leadership
Book 4
(The Uprising series)
(Book 1)
CHAPTER 1
Caleb
Caleb rode on his one mode of transportation, a black equine named Jasper, until he came to the spring near his new home on the Euthenia Nebula.
“I’m going to jump in and wash my body off, and then I’ll be on my way to fetch my bride,” Caleb said to himself.
Caleb stripped down then jumped into the near freezing water, igniting a shout. Briskly he scrubbed at his skin, then got out and dressed quickly. He ran his fingers through his wet hair, making the natural auburn curls spring up in a frame around his face.
Two swine hung by the edge of the spring, a sack on his equine’s hind quarters moved a bit. He whistled to the swine as he climbed back onto the saddled animal. Confidence filled him as he’d made a pact with himself not to let fear and doubt cloud his mind this time.
Instead of going straight to the Power’s home, he went through the small settlement, finding a missionary to marry them. He had what Emerald’s father had asked for and was not taking no for an answer. Not this time. Today he was taking Emerald Powers as his wife.
His heart began to pound in his chest as he got off his equine at the front of the dwelling. The missionary was not far behind him, so he had to get her father to agree pretty quickly. Swallowing hard, he knocked at the door.
Emerald’s father opened the door with a frown covering his wrinkled face. “You again!”
Not surprised by the man’s gruff greeting, Caleb smiled. “Yes sir, ‘tis I. I brought what you asked for and a missionary is on her way here now.”
Emerald’s father looked him ove
r, taking in his much better appearance.
The last time Caleb had come to ask for the man’s daughter’s hand, he’d been a mess after falling from his equine into the muddied fields which had been surrounding the settlement with the Euthenian rains.
“So, you’ve brought me the two swine you say. Why is it I only see one?”
Caleb gestured to the shed. “The other ran into your shed.”
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