Chapter 7
Ryo swallowed the blood that rose up in his throat. Last time he has spit it up and Julian had licked it off of him. He would not give Julian the pleasure of doing it again. He couldn’t tell how much time had passed. At first the pain had been distinct; he could feel Julian digging his nails into his flesh, could feel himself bleed, could tell which part of his body was being mutilated, but now the pain all blended together. His whole body throbbed in a blinding red pain, threatening his consciousness and his sanity.

He lay naked on a cold floor, slick with his blood, tied with chains to the wall. He lay there limply, barely conscious. There wasn’t apart of his body that Julian had marred with cuts, bruises, and deep gashes. All the while taunting him, tell him he wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Casey. That it was all Casey’s fault.

And that had just been the beginning.

Julian sat over him, smiling at his work. This one, he thought, was so exotic. So not Casey’s usual tastes….. But he is so beautiful. Dark beauty. His blood tastes like fire. He ran his tongue up from Ryo’s abdomen to his stomach, savoring the taste of him. Ryo mildly protested the touch, moving now cost him too much energy and pain.

“Oh, little lamb, you are so very rare. So precious. So wonderfully exquisite.” Julian lifted Ryo’s head up, supporting the back of Ryo’s neck with one of his hands. “Do you know WHERE my favorite place to bite someone is?” Julian’s other hand traveled down Ryo’s body to cup his flaccid sex. Ryo squirmed and let out a muffled no. “Done right it can cause the greatest pleasure you have ever known….but done wrong…you have NEVER felt something more painful.”

Julian slid off of Ryo and went to his legs. He pulled them open, wide and exposed. He easily fought off all of Ryo’s weak struggles as he chained his legs down. He crawled in between them, a wicked grin on his face. Ryo tensed, waiting for the pain to come.

“No, no, no, precious. You do that and it will only make this worse.” Julian thrust two sharp fingers inside him, tearing his skin, coating his passage with blood. Ryo scream caught in the back of his throat. His breath came out is quick successions.

“No….please….don’t,” he sobbed again. He strained against the bonds, trying to thrash around to throw Julian off. A swift kick in his side stilled him.

“I TOLD you not to. Didn’t I? You’re making this much harder then it has to be. Just give up and give in to me. It will be so easy…to LET GO.”

Ryo remained silent. He bit his lip from crying out. He desperately tried to think of something else, anything else, that would keep him from thinking about what was happening to his body…to his mind.

Then he felt Julian ripping into him and his mind started to tatter….

And when Julian sank his fangs into his him, he released the scream that had been trying to get free and he let go….

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“There’s my car!” Casey shouted, pulling into the parking lot.

“But where is Ryo?” Sage asked, looking at the surrounding area.

Casey pulled up next to it and jumped out. He checked the driver’s side, but Ryo was nowhere to be found.

“I’ve found tracks! He went this way!” Sage called a few feet away. Together they ran over the snow, leaping like deer over the white drifts.

They both saw the impressions in the snow at the same time. Casey smelled Ryo’s blood. “There are two tracks…” Sage said, squatting next to them. “It looks like they just came out of nowhere… And there was a struggle.” A glint of something in the snow caught his eye. He crawled over to it and his fingers grasped around Ryo’s orb. “Oh, god, no.” He looked up to Casey, his face asking the question.

“He’s not dead, but Julian has him….” a shudder ran though Casey.

Sage stood up, the orb clenched in his fist, “WHERE IS HE?!”

“If you’ll give me a few seconds I’ll find OUT!” Casey closed his eyes and zoned out everything, trying to find the bond he had with his sire that he longed to sever.

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Blood dripping off his chin, Julian’s head snapped up. Someone was trying to find him.

“Caaassseey,” he hissed.

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Casey slammed the bond closed. He staggered in the snow, trying not to retch.

“What? What is it?” Sage went to steady Casey.

Casey coughed a few times, took a few deep breathes to calm his nerves, and in a shaky voice said, “I found him. He’s know we’re coming.”

“But…won’t he….?”’

“No, he’ll wait. But we don’t have much time.”

Sage turned to run back to the car.

“No, that’s too slow. I have a much faster way.” Casey wrapped his arms around Sage and before Sage could protest, they were air born.

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“Someone’s coming to see us, my precious.” Julian stroked Ryo’s face. Ryo had passed out after Julian had drank from him. “Soon, soon he’ll be mine.”

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