Page 77 of The Breeding Cave
“Luciano …” she whispered. “I …”
“Who was it?”
“It was a female,” she said.
But I didn’t believe her.
I moved closer to her until we were inches apart. She was lying, but I wasn’t going to push it. I doubted that she even knew who it was.
“What was your first nightmare about?” I asked, drawing my fingers over her scars. “The nightmare that gave you these scars. What happened in that one? Did you see the dragons then? The Colossals?”
Tears pricked the corners of her eyes. “I saw the dragons.”
“What did they do?”
“We were at this cave,” she said. “And they burned everything in sight, including you.”
Why had the nightmare changed from killing me … to me hurting Yeosin? Both included dragons burning the world to the ground, except this one included the Colossals. What had happened?
“They didn’t try killing you in either of the dreams?” I asked.
“No. They don’t want to kill me.”
“How do you know?”
“I just know,” she whispered. “They want to torture me, to make me weak. They want total submission. Submission that I will never give them.”
CHAPTER
THIRTY-NINE
YEOSIN
The fire crackled in front of me. I pulled the blanket further around my shoulders and curled up next to it. While I wasn’t in that nightmare any longer, my body still burned, especially my mark. I didn’t know what to think, what to do.
“Do you think it’s the Colossals?” Brent whispered to Luciano.
Luciano and Brent stood at the edge of the cave, speaking quietly to each other, but I could hear them crystal clear. I gently brushed my fingers against the bite marks that Luciano had given me earlier.
My body had gone through so many transformations over the course of the last few weeks, but this was definitely the biggest one. If I focused hard enough, I could hear the forest noises from miles away.
“The nightmares?” Luciano growled, canines lengthened. “No.”
The Colossals must’ve been what that giant monster was earlier, who had paid me a visit in the cave, the one who had saved me from that monster who, if I was putting this together correctly, must’ve been Alf. Luciano and Brent had been talking about Alpha Alf too.
“Who are the Colossals?” I asked.
Whoever the hell they were … I didn’t know if they were enemies or allies. That woman earlier had saved me, yes, but … I couldn’t shake the feeling that she had secretly wanted me dead. And for Ruby to show up in my dream as an enemy?
“Nobody,” Luciano snarled, snapping his gaze to me. “You should be resting.”
“No,” I said, standing. “I want to know what’s happening. They’re torturing me.”
“It’s too dangerous for you,” Luciano said.
I crossed my arms. “No, it’s not.”
“Rest,” he snarled. “Or I will send you to the mountain where I sent Molly.”
