##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

I couldn’t open my window to gaze out at the scenery. It was locked shut. Still, the view was stunning. The purple mountains stretched out as far as they eye could see, but it made me wonder what normal neighborhoods looked like in this world.


Panic rippled through me when I felt a familiar stomach cramp that normally came near the end of the month. Time was slipping through my fingers, I didn’t even realize what day it was. And how much closer it would have been to my birthday.


One quick trip to the bathroom confirmed my fear. My period had come. I folded a bit of cloth and set it inside my underwear before I sought out Dylan. As much as I didn’t want to ask him, I had no choice. It was better to die of embarrassment than die of an awful, painful infection.


Chapter 16