All Chapters of Promised to the Panthers: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

“You bred with her,” I snarled the moment Obsidian stepped into the kitchen. “You marked her with bruises!”Obsidian walked over to the fridge and opened it. Reaching inside, he grabbed the milk and slammed the door closed. Our eyes locked when he uncapped the bottle and raised it to his lips.I reached out to grab hold of the countertop so I wouldn’t storm over to him and rip the bottle from his hold.“She deserved it,” he rasped after lowering the bottle. “I told her to stop touching me.”“So you fucking forced her?”Obsidian snarled and slammed the bottle down. “I never fucking forced her.”“Really?” I straightened and hissed at him. “So you didn’t choke her and force-breed her as she fought for air. You didn’t hold her down with your teeth while—”A ferocious snarl fell from his lips before he attacked.I stumbled from the force of his palm slamming into the middle of my chest. Before I could regain my balance, Obsidian threw another punch, which sent me crashing into the cabinets

“You guys really need to get yourself a car to drive from your house to the main house,” I gasped as I struggled to suck air into my lungs.It was a lot hotter than it had been yesterday. There was no damn breeze to cool my skin as we walked down the well-worn path. I actually wished that I had the opportunity to take a dip in the pool by the waterfall before we left.Apparently, the bang we had heard yesterday was some of the teens experimenting with a gun they had found that had been left behind by some hunters. There had been no danger which was the mistake I had made. The kid thought I was an intruder and that was why he had tackled me. There had been no real harm done, but it really wasn’t something I’d like to repeat ever again. It was embarrassing enough—being knocked out by an eight-year-old kid.“It would ruin the plantation,” Devrim said, snapping me back to the present. “The trees are too close together and the sound will disturb the wild animals and cause trouble.”“Oh.”“

I thrashed beneath the man leaning over me.He was trying to blindfold me, but the movement of the car and my thrashing body were making it hard for him.A cry of pain cut off my screaming when the man lost his balance and fell on top of me. His elbow dug into my ribs for a few seconds until he managed to push himself up. The pain left me motionless, and it gave him just enough time to slip the blindfold on and to cover my mouth with a piece of duct tape.It had been easy to escape from the car the first time because the men had been fighting, but I didn’t know if escape was an option for me again.Ezra… He was coming for me, right? I had caught a glimpse of him running towards the car before I had been thrown into it again.All I wanted to do was get some fresh air after the video Chief Curry had shown me. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I had soon realized my mistake when the car had parked. I had turned, ready to enter the building again, but I was grabbed from behind.

I made a mistake. It was the sentence that ran over and over in my head as I waited. Obsidian was silently watching me with those calculating eyes of his.Why isn’t he saying anything?I gripped the side of the bathtub when Obsidian continued to stare at me. What if this is one of his sick jokes? Any minute now, he was going to laugh in my face and tell me how pathetic I was.But then Obsidian moved.He gripped the back of Vanya’s neck like he had done the other night, but gentler.Water splashed against the side of the tub when he pulled her closer to him.And then, their lips were pressed together.I couldn’t tear my eyes away from them. There was just something about the way their lips moved together.I bit my lip when Obsidian’s tongue swiped across Vanya’s bottom lip. She instantly parted them and moaned as his tongue slipped inside. Vanya reached out and pressed her wet hands against his chest, which made him jerk away.“What did I tell you about touching me?” he growled.She

I frowned at him. “B-but you gave me a pill.”“It’s a human pill—human medicine to help with the nausea. They assured me that it’s okay for you to take,” Obsidian told me.Is that supposed to be reassuring? Human medicine—probably one of those anti-nausea pills which was working great, but it didn’t take away the fact that I might still actually be dying.“They must have used something else to counteract the tranquilizer in the facility, right?”“Vanya—”“Can’t you give that to me?”“Rosebud, we can’t do that,” Devrim said softly. “We might make things worse instead of better.”He moved closer and slipped an arm around my shoulders. That small action was enough to make a sob escape.“I don’t w-want to d-die.”His hold only tightened. Turning my head, I pressed my face against his neck and cried harder. Devrim was whispering soothing words, but I couldn’t focus on what he was saying. All I could think about was the things I still wanted to do before I died.“We have one option, but I’