Chapter Ten
Miserable terror of a species wholly unrelated to that to which I’d become addicted collapsed into confusion, which was then superseded by enormous relief.
Goddess was here! I was saved! Relief then climbed into amazed elation as what she was saying penetrated me. Groveling meekly at her feet I wanted nothing more than to squirm forward and slobber kisses all over those steel-toed boots.
“I have decided to tentatively accept you into my mortal stable. From now on, you will live here in my basement dungeon with my other current slaves – provided you make it through this night. In any case you will never see your car, cozy little apartment, or even the light of day again.”
Backlit by those yellow bulbs, and looming above me in surroundings infinitely more sinister than her be
