The Dungeon of Depraved Beasts (An Erotic Horror Novel) (13 page)

Olivia allowed herself a small
smile; she was afraid to hope but she couldn’t help the small glimmer. “How was
your day?” Leo asked. It had become customary for Olivia and Leo to share about
their day. Olivia never gave explicit details, but she would give Leo a basic
overview of her day. Today for some reason, Olivia felt embarrassed. She didn’t
want to tell Leo how she had been forced to sleep with a guard, and not only
that, but she had enjoyed it. It was different than being forced to have sex
with a monster.

Olivia shrugged, not looking at
Leo. “It was fine.”

Leo was quiet; he studied her.
“Everything okay?”

“Sure! Fine!” she said her voice a
little too high.

Leo changed the subject and began
asking Olivia more about the park she loved on campus. Leo always seemed to ask
about her life, but whenever Olivia tried to ask about his, he usually skirted
the questions and somehow directed them back at Olivia. She knew next to
nothing about Leo except that he had a handful of brothers. He would never talk
about where he came from, or what his life had been like before he was
captured. This only made Olivia more intrigued about his past.

All too quickly, the thirty minutes
flew by and Olivia had to leave. Leo looked at her with alarm. “Why so short
today?” he asked. Olivia shrugged, but she knew that her face gave her away. “I
wish you would tell me what happened today,” Leo said softly.

“I can’t. I’m ashamed.” Even as she
said the words, Olivia didn’t understand them. Why did Leo make her feel this
way? She hurried away from him and into the elevator.

* *
*

Nae collected Olivia and took her
back down. “Where’s Samuel?” Olivia asked curiously. Usually, Samuel collected
her.

Nae shrugged. “I was told to come
and get you.” Olivia frowned but let it go. “Rurik is getting very possessive
of you,” Nae said suddenly, as the elevator descended.

Olivia turned to stare at her.
“What does that mean?” she demanded.

Nae chose her words carefully. “He
doesn’t want other people around you. Or touching you. I heard about what
Gorside did with you and Samuel. I’m sure Samuel loved it and I’m guessing it
was better than Rurik, but Rurik became incredibly angry.”

Olivia shifted uncomfortably. The
last thing she needed right now was to piss Rurik off. She needed to continue
to please him and stay until the radar until Leo gave her the okay for the next
step in their plan. “Okay, Rurik became angry. But what can I do? I have no
control of that!” she said, frustrated.

“I know you can’t control it and
you can’t do anything. But you should be aware. Rurik may start limiting your
Rec Room time, or he may keep you in his quarters for hours on end.”

“I need my Rec Room time!” she said
a little too quickly. Olivia regained her composure. “Nae, that is my only
respite.”

Nae nodded solemnly. “Tell Rurik.
Show
him. Make sure
he knows just how much you value that time.”

Olivia nodded. The doors slid open
and Nae hurried forwards, Olivia following. Just as they were approaching their
room, there was a terrible banging and roaring sound from somewhere upstairs.
Nae looked around wildly, her dark eyes flashing as she pushed Olivia up
against the wall with such force that at first Olivia could only marvel at the
strength in Nae’s tiny body. “Get against the wall!” Nae cried and she darted a
few feet down the hallway where another nymph Olivia had seen before, came
barreling out of a room.

“What was that?” the other nymph
asked anxiously.

“I don’t know but it was, but it
sounded like Gorside.”

Olivia’s mind raced and she tried
to think what Gorside could be angry over. He had been pleased with Samuel
earlier, and Olivia desperately wanted to know what had happened in the
interim. There was a deafening crash and Olivia covered her ears. Seconds
later, Calista came tearing into view, her blonde hair flying behind her.

“What’s going on?” Nae cried.

“Gorside!” Calista panted. “He’s
furious! He summoned me to please him but then...then—’

“Then what?” Nae demanded.

“He couldn’t get hard! He tried and
tried but he just kept going limp! He began to throw things and was screaming
about some tincture and then I ran out of there before he could hurt me.”
Olivia’s heart stopped when Calista said tincture. She couldn’t possibly mean
the tincture that Samuel gave her? Calista was babbling on about running away
and how she had gone two steps at a time as she heard the banging begin.

“Samuel,” Olivia whispered. No one
seemed to hear her and she struggled to say it louder, her mind a muddy,
chaotic mess. “Samuel,” she croaked.

The other nymph looked at Olivia
strangely and nudged Nae. “What? Did you say something?”

“Samuel,” she repeated, feeling the
blood drain from her face.

“What do you mean?” Nae demanded.

“The tincture,” she stuttered, “he
gave it to Gorside.”

“What?” Calista’s eyes were bulging
out of her head.

“Yes. He gave it to Gorside. He
promised he would find a remedy to keep Gorside away from me. After Emily’s
death, I was afraid Gorside would take me from Rurik,” Olivia felt the words
tumbling out. “But Gorside was pleased with Samuel! He rewarded him!” Her face
turned crimson at the memory. “Gorside was pleased,” she continued, “He said
that humans couldn’t even satisfy his need because it was so great,” she ducked
her head in embarrassment when she realized that while Samuel’s tincture had
helped her, it had made things worse for the nymphs.

Olivia saw the realization hit
Calista and Nae but they seemed to move past it. “Then it’s Samuel who’s in trouble,”
Nae said quietly. Another awful crash and horrifying snarl filled the floor.
This time it seemed the noise was getting closer. “Quick!” Nae said, running to
door Number Eight and fumbling with the lock. “Get in! We’ll figure out what is
going on!”

“No!” Olivia cried, but she
couldn’t fight Nae’s strength.

Nae shoved her in the room. “I’m
locking you in! Don’t make a sound!”

“But...Samuel!” Olivia argued.

“We’ll take care of it!” Calista
said quickly. The door shut and Olivia could hear Nae turning the lock.

“No!” Olivia cried out, banging on
the door. She could hear yelling and screaming outside of her door, and a
terrible roar let her know that Gorside was on her floor. There was more
crashing and banging, rumbling and breaking. Olivia could hear shouts from the
nymphs. Olivia wanted to beat on the door with her fists until she had no
strength, but she remembered Nae’s words. Frustrated and helpless she slid to
the floor and her body wracked with sobs. If anyone was hurt, it was her fault.
Olivia crawled to the back corner of her room. She waited. And waited. All was
quiet but still no one came for her.

She began to fall asleep in her
spot, and a few times she woke up suddenly, her head snapping back up. It had
to be the middle of the night by now. Why hadn’t Nae come back to tell her what
happened? Olivia tried to force her eyes to stay open, but they wouldn’t. Her
head snapped up again and she knew she had been sleeping. She strained to hear
anything and then she heard what had woken her. A faint knocking at the door.

Olivia scrambled up from the ground
and ran to the door. Seconds later, Nae unlocked it. She looked awful. Her hair
was wild and her clothes were torn. She had cuts on her face and bruises on her
arms.

“Are you okay?” Olivia cried. Nae
nodded but Olivia could see something else was wrong. “What? What is it?”

“It’s Samuel,” Nae whispered.
Olivia felt her heart skip a beat. What had happened to Samuel? He had risked
his life to help protect her. Nae shook her head. “I’m sorry, Olivia.”

Olivia stood frozen. “No.”

“I’m sorry. He stood no chance
against Gorside.”

“He can’t be,” she whispered. But
she knew in Nae’s face that it was true. Samuel was dead. He had died trying to
keep her from Gorside. Olivia heard a loud ringing in her ears and Nae began to
sway. Then all went dark.

* * * * *

Chapter 4

* * * * *

Olivia blinked.

Everything was dark.

She was dressed in the soft purple pajamas.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the memories
from earlier that evening. It was useless. She felt the urge to scream but
instead she drifted off into a heavy sleep.

* * *

Olivia awoke again.

She felt that she hadn’t been asleep for long.

She rolled over again, muffling her cries into her pillow.

She fell asleep again.

* * *

Olivia awoke, this time her head was pounding.

She felt that something had woken her, but all was quiet.

She rolled over.

Suddenly, a loud pounding on the door rang out and she
staggered out of bed, assuming that must have been what she'd heard moments
earlier.

She pulled the door open and Nae was standing there, her
bruises and cuts already healing from the previous night.

“I can’t do this today,” Olivia said hollowly as she walked
back to bed.

“I know how you feel, but I’m afraid you have no choice.”

Olivia whirled around, her eyes flashing.

“Samuel was killed because of me! He was helping
me!
I
can’t just go out there today and pretend that everything is fine!”

Nae went to interrupt her, but Olivia continued.

“I can’t fuck him one more time, Nae! I can’t do it!” Olivia
sobbed, falling onto her bed.

“I know, I know,” Nae crooned, as she sat beside her and
gently stroked her hair.

The minutes ticked by without either woman saying a word.
Olivia’s sobs finally quieted, but Nae continued to stroke her hair.

“I will tell Rurik that you are sick. I can’t make any
promises. If anything, it might buy you one day. But he will be all the more
eager for you tomorrow.”

Olivia nodded; it was worth a try.

“Thank you.”

Nae stood up. “Call for me if you want me to bring you anything.”

She left the room, gently pulling the door closed behind
her.

Olivia crawled back under the covers. She saw a small white
pill that Nae must have slipped onto the nightstand.

She swallowed it quickly and shut off the light.

* * *

“Olivia? Olivia?” came a soft voice.

Groggily, Olivia flipped the light on. She wasn’t sure how
much time had passed, since Nae left her alone, but she thought it had been an
entire day. Olivia had hardly woken up, and it had been a dreamless sleep. The
obvious signs of a sleeping aide. She knew she should feel rested, but she
didn’t.

She pulled the door open and she saw Daphne standing in the
hallway. She hurried into the room and shut the door.

“Where’s Nae?” Olivia asked stupidly as she stared at
Daphne.

Daphne sighed. “Indisposed. Gorside is back in working order
and Nae has becoming his current favorite. I believe Michael is in the process
of finding a new human for him as we speak,” she said disdainfully.

Before, Olivia had felt horrified at a new women being
subjected to this fortress of torture, but now she just felt empty.

“You can’t dwell on that,” Daphne said matter-of-factly, “It
was bound to happen.” She moved to make the bed. “Now we need to get you up and
fed and dressed. Rurik was an absolute bear without you yesterday.”

Olivia knew that the one day she had been granted had been a
gift and she woodenly followed Daphne out of the room to eat breakfast. Olivia
felt as if she had lost all of her fire. She was empty inside and while she
ached to see Leo, she also dreaded seeing him, too. Even his comforting
presence felt like too much for her to endure.

As Calista and Daphne made her beautiful, Olivia tried to
talk her through dealing with Samuel’s death. She had hardly liked Samuel, and
she had been afraid when he told her he had feelings for her. Just because she
didn’t love him, didn’t mean she had wanted him dead. And then things had
become complicated after Gorside had forced Olivia to have sex with Samuel.

He was the first human Olivia had sex with and it had been
so unlike the sex with Rurik. Not to mention that Samuel had been killed trying
to protect Olivia from Gorside’s sexual appetite.

Of course, Olivia was reeling from his death.

Suddenly, Emily’s questionable death was more appealing to
Olivia.

“Snap out of it!” Calista hissed, bringing Olivia back to
the present.

Olivia blinked at her.

“All of us just learned that Samuel actually had a heart,
and of course it’s horrible. But we can’t do anything about it now and we need
to move on. I know it sounds harsh but if you’re not careful, you’re going to
get yourself killed. Don’t let Rurik know you had feelings for him!”

“But I didn’t have feelings for him!” Olivia argued. “It was
just that he was nice to me and he gave Gorside that tincture,” she trailed off,
unable to say any more.

“So, Samuel gave him the tincture? He was already acting
recklessly. It could have been a matter of time. We need to be realistic and
you need to take care of yourself. Don’t go getting yourself in trouble.”

Olivia nodded. She knew Calista was right and she needed to
suck it up for a few more days. Leo had said that things were getting bad and
they needed to put their plan in action in the next week.

Feeling a renewed sense of hope, Olivia knew she had to be
extra good to Rurik today. She had to get to the Rec Room to see Leo. She just
needed to hear his voice and have him reassure her that they would be free soon
enough.

Ten minutes later, Michael deposited Olivia to Rurik’s room.