Mated to the Beast of the Wasteland novel Chapter 168

Chapter 168 The Moth

Chapter 168 The Moth

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Elowen’s eyes turned cold. With a single swing, she smashed every other gourd hanging from the pear

tree.

He had no business meddling. Who had let him meddle? Who had given him permission?

Gillian hadn’t expected such a violent reaction. In her last life, the regret in Elowen’s eyes had nearly

crushed her.

Elowen stood there silent, her face calm, but the bitterness inside her was almost too much to bear.

He was already gone. So why let her find the gourds at all?

Elowen tucked the flash of sadness away and slipped back into her role as the smiling, dazzling hostess.

Gillian dropped her eyes, took Merrick’s hand on her own, and led him toward the door. Let Elowen keep pretending.

Merrick and his wife had already started toward the door.

Elowen privately rolled her eyes at the whole thing, but her actions said otherwise. She placed the jade gourd on the front desk. “Take this to my room. Watch it. Nobody touches it.”

“Yes, Boss.”

The room sat dim and lavish around them.

A blindfold covered Elara’s eyes. In the dim room, the only thing visible was the tangled shadows of two figures overlapping in the lamplight beside the bed.

A moth fluttered through the room. The instant it spotted the light, it shot straight for the wall lamp.

The cold-looking wall lamp had been burning for hours. Not just the filament but the shade itself ran scorching hot.

The moth beat its wings a few times and still couldn’t pull itself away from the light, but the burns already covered both wings and its belly.

Its last desperate dive left the moth scorched all over.

The lamp shade was dangerous.

The little moth finally understood that this light wasn’t the moonlight she had longed for. It was something dangerous, something man-made.

It tried to escape, but its lower body had already melted, oozing a sticky fluid from the wound.

Its tiny legs pushed against the lamp shade with everything they had, and its wings beat against the surface in desperation. It took several attempts before it finally pulled free of the searing heat.

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But the dazed moth circled once and felt itself drawn back to the lamp. Its sticky tail, its burned wings, its scorched legs all softened and stuck to the surface, fused to it now and beyond peeling away.

It stayed there until it was completely dead, stuck to the lamp shade.

“Elara, tell me, how should I punish you? Out of my sight for a single day, and you let yourself end up like this, hmm?”

Elara had been drifting in and out of consciousness when the deep male voice murmured into her ear and/ the chill shot down her spine. Was that Maddox?

He had taken her? How was that possible? How could he have done that?

Even with the blindfold on, Elara felt a sharp burn against her chest, and the core bond locked into place between them.

She had to be dreaming. This had to be a dream. Wasn’t the deal that she serve him another ten years for the antidote?

The antidote was him?

The whole thing was absurd.

Maddox watched Elara figure it all out and gave her his first smile of the day. His thin lips pressed a kiss to the blindfold covering her eyes.

Elara shuddered in fear, and Maddox looked deeply satisfied with her reaction.

She was awake now.

“Elara, there is no antidote. If you want this poison out of your system, you take me. Running from it gets you nowhere.”

“Why does it have to be you?”

Elara knew Maddox wouldn’t let her dodge this, and she had nowhere left to run.

Her voice came out hoarse and drained.

“If not me, then who else?”

Maddox was angry now. Elara knew him better than anyone. If she didn’t yield, didn’t apologize, didn’t beg, what came next would be a brutal punishment.

But Elara was bone tired. She didn’t have words left in her right now.

Maddox kissed his way along Elara’s nose and lips. When he caught the don’t-fucking-touch-me look on her face, he released her.

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He activated the bound phantoms inside both their primal cores, forcing her to feel that the deal was already done.

“You want the cure, come and get it yourself.”

Even with the blindfold on, Elara could picture exactly how furious he was. Her resistance had set off his moods all over again.

Fine, she would come get it herself.

Elara bit her lip. She couldn’t afford to lose her primal core, and at this point there wasn’t enough time to track down a different male.

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