Page 51 of Secretly Married To My Monster Alien Boss
Rynar tasted vengeance on the tip of his tongue.
“Run,” he said and attacked.
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ALISSIA
Before she had a chance to process what he’d said, Rynar had pounced.
He was a gray blur of unrelenting ferocity, bolting through the trees. Alissia’s eyes could barely track him in the darkness.
But she heard the rustling.
The gunfire.
The spit of acid burning the fallen leaves.
Alissia’s heart raced, muscles tense. She was so scared–not for her. For Rynar.
And she was powerless. She’d barely managed to jiggle the net that had encased him, and it had been a struggle.
She started to run toward him, but one of the scum who’d wanted toburnher with acid raised his gun, a malevolent smirk on his face.
Alissia froze.
Of courseshe was easy to spot. She was wearing a long white dress, with gleaming jewels.
In the next breath, Rynar crashed into the man, pinning him up against the tree by the throat. His eyes slashed toward her. They were completely black. His fangs were lowered, and his horns glinted in the few sunrays which had started to encroach.
“Stay hidden,” he hissed.
Alissia hesitated–but she didn’t want to distract Rynar.
“Be careful,” she mouthed.
Rynar nodded, before focusing his attention on the whimpering man he had by the throat. Not smirking now, was he?
Alissia took cover behind a large tree, flanked on both sides by tall, thorny bushes. As hidden as she could be. She didn’t dare run away, lest one of the fools spotted her again and finished what they’d tried to do.
Her skin still ached from where the acid had barely touched her, the spot bumpy and red. If one single drop could do so much harm, Alissia didn’t even want to think what the full blast would have done to her.
It would’ve killed her. Agonizingly so.
She would have thrashed and withered away as her skin and muscles would have melted right there on the forest floor, with nobody but Rynar to hear her last cry.
She shook her head, adrenaline pumping so hard, all she heard was her own blood roaring in her ears.
This was insane.
Ambushed by armed humans on her wedding day. For what? Daring to marry Rynar, a Deruzian?
It was preposterously stupid.
But she could do nothing about it. She’d never had much physical strength, flexibility or reflexes.
She felt useless.
Shewasuseless.
