Corrupted By You Marzy Opal Novels & Stories

The corruption snapped back like a whip, sending a violent jolt through the scout’s arm. Lyra flinched. “Rowan wait. It’s pushing against us.” “I know,” Rowan muttered, refusing to pull back. “But if we lose control for even a second it may take him.” The scout gasped through clenched teeth. His hands clawed at the platform until Azeriel stepped in and held them down. Rowan breathed out and tried again. This time she reached past the first layer of corrupted energy and touched the core. Something flickered. Small at first. Almost too faint to name. But Rowan knew that warmth. She knew it in a way that could never fade.

And then, in a whisper I could hear her voice warming me, as an assurance that everything would be all right. “I missed her.” *** *M****a - Shit*

Genevieve muttered. "Cancel it, you damn know my views about sex scenes, Gene," Marley held eyes with her briefly. "What do think? I got a body double for the scenes. Ain't no way I'm letting another man see what's meant for just you, Marley." Genevieve replied without looking at him. "I found peace the day I found you, Gene," Marley smiled. "And you've been expanding, getting richer. I blessed you with brilliant kids except the one bad luck which we've finally cast out." Genevieve raised her shoulders proudly.

“Why are you here, Mara? You and Lila… what did you do to end up forgotten here.” Mara’s face hardened, old pain rising like a tide. She set the spoon down, hands clenching in her lap. “I had a pack once. Small, no grand name worth remembering, but it was home. Good hunting grounds, kind elders. I had a mate.” Her voice cracked on the word, but she steadied it. “We were happy. Truly happy. Planned a big family.” She touched her belly unconsciously, though the memory was years old. “Until he decided happiness wasn’t enough. Took another female… younger, from a stronger bloodline. When I was heavy with Lila, they banished me. Called me a burden. A weak link. Dumped me at the border like trash.

“This is how we get it.” Their gazes clashed long enough to spark. Finally Alpha Malric looked at me instead. “You can refuse,” he said. I held his eyes. “I will not.” Something moved behind his expression then, something like reluctant pride wrapped in fear. “Do it,” I told Orrin. The needle pricked my finger. A drop of my blood welled. Orrin let one drop of the infected sample meet it on the glass plate. Instead of spreading dark, the corruption thinned. The color paled, then broke apart like smoke in wind.

Behind her, younger Mara grinning like a lunatic, holding up a brain in a jar with a pink ribbon tied around it like a birthday present. “I didn’t die in the ’04 leak,” Mara said, tapping the photo. “I uploaded. The version one was my golden parachute, the board thought they’d killed me, I just had to let them live with the thoughts to keep you safe .” She looked at Aurora. “You were my backup drive, sweetheart.”

The word was a harsh derisive refrain that kept repeating in my head. “So what now?” I finally said stepping back a little and speaking in a raspy voice. “What do I do? Is there a way to undo it?” Sophia paused looking off into space. “I'm not sure Ivy. Really I don't. Its ancient magic the mark… formidable. No one I've heard of has ever broken its hold.” She turned to face me again pity shining in her eyes. “We’ll work it out though. together. We're not letting her win. I wished I could trust her… desperately. But it felt like the word forever had been etched into my very being.”

Mara could hear the singing and laugh inside and entered to meet with her eyes the first sight of sodomy. Zyair was propped up and had a naked guy sucking his much-naked self off while he watched some naked women dance and sing for him. Mara apologized for the intrusion and turned away, leaving as she did not want to make him uncomfortable, while he threw on his pants and came after her. “Thought you should be resting.” He said “I’m fine, Zyair.” She said. He smiled and asked why she had come, and Mara explained her reasons. She had still been speaking when she felt the urge to throw up, which she dismissed as the fault of what she had seen.

" Cora said when the doctor paused from talking and all eyes turned towards hers. "Yes Mrs. King, you have a question?" The director answered Cora with his bright smile "Actually, it's Miss Ruiz... Mr. King and I are not married..." She said and was surprised when Zach's countenance that was pleasant towards the doctors suddenly turned hard and cold. "Oh, I'm sorry! It's my bad..." The director apologized

Chapter91 Lucian's pov. Martha was wondering what I was trying to say, but it was like she understood what I meant because her expression changed. Her heart was drumming, and she was confused. She turned towards me, and then directed her line of sight to Cookie who hadn't answered the question I asked her. “Cookie, answer me. Have you been corrupted?” Martha pressed on, her eyes didn't even blink while she stared at her daughter. Fear filled her. Someone being corrupted was hard to recover. There were certain things about corruption we had heard about the past, but whenever it happened, it corruption too over the mind, it led to the person's end.