##WARNING This story will contain. Strong sexual content, strong language, dark scenes about human trafficking. ##
Fear instantly overcame my senses. I had been trafficked. They’re selling me to shifters. Shifters paid irresistible money to own human girls as sex slaves. 
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Everything was shaking all around me as if I was in the back of a moving car. An unpleasant smell that could have woken me from even my darkest dreams filled the air and convinced me that I was wide awake.  Fear instantly overcame my senses.
 Where was I? 
What was I doing here? 
Who took me? 
“Help…” I tried to shout. My torn throat wouldn’t allow it. 
In my mind, images flashed of barbaric shifters standing outside that door. Big, tall and rough creatures that knew no manners and only wanted to claim things. I’d heard stories since I was old enough to understand that they favored pretty human girls and plucked them off the roads as if they were all free for the taking.  
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Patara tried to move back away from the handsome young man, but he held her firm. Squeezing her chin a little harder to keep her in place. His blue-grey, beautiful eyes looked over her every feature as if he wanted to burn the image in his mind. 
“Would you like me to take you away?” He asked in a husky voice. His words made her skin litter in goosebumps. She couldn’t speak, only nod desperately.          
“And what do you offer me in exchange for your rescue? Would you like to follow me?” 
Slowly, she nodded her head and put her hand in his. 
“Remember your promises,” he said against her ear.  She held her breath. “The last person who betrayed me got to see what his insides looked like before I slit his throat.” 

Captured By The Dragon

She must have gotten sick in the forest.


It was a wild, wretched place and those easily could fall prey to it if they didn’t know how to navigate it properly. I was foolish not to watch her closer. I should have noticed how pale she’d gotten. She could have touched the wrong bush or her body might not have been able to take the rapid weather change.


I knew one thing, I had to try and help her get this fever down before it consumed her whole. Besides, she’d only just became mine.


“Bring me a bucket of cold water and a towel.” I said to the soldier I passed without looking at hm.


I carried her to the room in the back of the cabin and kicked the door closed behind me before I placed her on the bed. I felt her cheeks, her head. My warm hand felt ice cold compared to her skin.


Chapter 11