Devil`s Angel

Days passed, the guests from the Ikran clan were gone, her anger has disappeared just to be replaced by the emptiness. Her heart has turned into a stone and she could no longer feel anything. The plan of her vengeance was already formed in her head. All she had to do was to wait for the opportune moment.

Jake was always present, he would either approach her during the meals to talk to her or when she was hunting alone, asking for the love he thought she felt for him. She would often give in, only because she didn`t want him to get suspicious. She would pretend to like what he was doing to her, although everything in him disgusted her. That last night was as awful as never before. Every single kiss he placed on her body felt like poison, every touch like knife, cutting her. She was so motionless he asked her what was wrong. And she lied. For the first time in her life she used a lie. But it felt right. He didn`t deserve her honesty. All he deserved was her vendetta. And today was the day. She heard him state that he would go hunting alone, far from his usual hunting area. That was her chance. She had prepared herself and everything she needed and now was waiting for him to show up. Her ears were moving in all directions, trying to catch the smallest sound. Soon she heard a direhorse arriving. She was sure it was Jake.
She had pulled a thin rope that was almost invisible to block the way of the animal. She prepared the spinelike arrow soaked with the sap from the scorpion thistle. Jake was quickly approaching the trap. Nor the animal or the rider noticed the rope and the direhorse faltered and fell on the ground. Jake was pressed under the creature`s body but just before he could free himself she shot the spine. It hit his hand and cut his skin, enough for the paralyzing poison to enter his blood stream. Jake lost consciousness almost immediately. She stood up from her hiding spot and went to him. He looked like he was sleeping.

“This would keep him helpless for about half an hour. Just the time I need.” She smirked.

The direhorse was already on his feet when she called for her ikran, who was waiting her nearby. The creature arrived and she put Jake on it. He was heavy enough for her, but the anger that has returned in her heart gave her the strength. She flew him way up in the Iknimaya where no one would disturb them.

She had installed a small arc where she was able to tie his hands above his head. She tied him in a way his face was at her height, so she could look into his eyes when needed. His legs were slightly bent. This would be a painful position once he was awake. The next thing she did was placing a small piece of wood in his mouth tying it behind his head. She was ready.

Jake woke up slowly, only moments after he realized the state he was in. He looked up just to see her smiling calmly.

“Well… good morning, honey. How are you feeling?”

He struggled against the ropes holding his hands together and tried to say something. The wood was preventing him from speaking so all she heard was a growl.

“Now, Jake, we will have some fun. Look, remember your old friend?”

She showed him the razor palm whip she was holding in her hand.

“This will be my vengeance, dear.”

He looked at her puzzled and his growls became louder. She hit him hard on the face with the whip, cutting his skin. Blood ran freely from his cheek. He struggled harder now.

“Stop it!” she hissed. “I want you to be as motionless as you can…so I`m going to help you. I don`t want you to feel uncomfortable, right?”

She grabbed a kind of animal skin gloves and with their help took some razor palm leaves. Jake`s eyes grew wide.

“This will help you to stay still” and with that she began to wrap the leaves around his arms straitening them.

The spines dug into his skin, more blood dropping from the tiny wounds. Jake was snarling and moaning from the pain he felt. It was then when he first realized this was not a game. He tried to kick her with his foot, but it was still insensible so he wasn`t able to hurt her. She stepped back quickly taking more leaves.

“I think your legs need some of them too.”

She wrapped the rest of the leaves and doubled the pain. She looked at his eyes. He had tears in them.

“Better then the ropes, right?”

He hissed at her. She came closer and licked the blood from his cheek. He turned his head and slightly hit her. She just smiled.

“Oh, I knew it I had forgotten something.” She took a rope and tied it around his neck. Now even the tiniest move of his head was causing him to choke and suffocate.

“Now you are ready.”

She took the whip and spanked him hard on the chest. The spines cut deep. He tensed his body only to feel the pain from the leaves again. She continued to whip him all over his body. At first he was fighting it, he gathered all his strength to free himself, but soon realized it was impossible. He was helpless, counting only on her mercy. And she seemed merciless. He was wondering what has got her.

She whipped him until he was completely covered in cuts and blood. He could barely stand anymore. He was feeling so weak, his whole body was hurting, and the slight cold wind was making the pain hundred times stronger. Then she tore his loincloth.

“Hmm…you are not aroused. And I thought you liked it the tough way. We`ll fix that.” And she grabbed his member stroking it gently. Despite the agony he moaned from the pleasure. Her touch was warm and her hand felt so soft. His groin soon became hard. She smiled and backed up a little.

“Always the weak around the women.” She said and spanked his arousal with the whip.

He snarled loud, biting hard on the wood. She repeated the action again. He almost lost consciousness. This was more that he could bear. She leaned down and licked the blood away, the moisture burning his flesh. Then she got up and removed the wood from his mouth. He tried to speak, but it was hard. The rope around his neck was so tight, his throat hurt.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” His voice has become harsh, he needed water.

“What is wrong with me? You ask me after what you have done?”

“Remind me please, because it seems I have forgotten. I thought we had something going on.”

“We had. Until I saw you.”

He looked at her surprised.

“I..” but she cut him placing the wood again.

“I have more for you to come. Let`s not lose time in vain speeches”

He roared.

She turned away from him. She felt tears burn her eyes. She was so mad at him, but seeing him now, so miserable, so vulnerable was too much for her. Every time she noticed the pain written on his face, a knife cut her heart. But she had to finish this. She had to forget the love she felt for him. She reminded herself of what he had done; she recalled the images of him and that woman kissing each other. He had to be punished. He had to know what it was like to feel like dying. She turned to face him.

Jake was slowly recovering, although he could barely move. The spines were still cutting his skin. She took a small bowl full of some strange liquid and got to him. She soaked his loincloth in the liquid and slowly began caressing his body with it.

Jake screamed like he was being skinned alive. The liquid was burning his wounds, it was stinging. His body convulsed involuntary causing even more cuts and more pain and more burning. Tears began running down his face. She saw them and her heart tensed.

She couldn`t stand watching him cry. He was supposed to be a monster, but now he seemed like a lost little child. So tender and helpless. She wanted to stop the torture right there and just kiss him and hold him until the pain was gone. But she couldn`t do it. He should never understand just how much she loved him. Because it didn`t really mattered to him. He was just using her to satisfy his needs. Although she had done the same. That first time, it seemed so long ago now, she just wanted to know what the feeling of making love to Jake was. She was curious, he was something new, so different from the others, he knew things she haven`t even imagined.

Her hands continued to touch his body, still holding the loincloth. He had stopped moving already, he didn`t have the strength anymore. Just small sounds of agony were escaping his throat. She looked at him, but didn`t see the mess he represented now.

Instead she saw him smiling, his face illuminated by the bioluminescent light, the fires in his eyes. She saw his gaze, full of love. He was leaning over her while they were lying on the ground and in the mud. Their eyes locked and he whispered.

“I`m yours. You have made me a monster, but you have also made me show the best of me. And all I want is to be with you, forever. Like now. I want to hold you and watch the stars with you, I want to kiss you and hear you moan when I touch you.” And she was happy back then. Because she could finally admit to herself that she loved him as well. That he was everything she wanted.

Her hand stopped. She turned back into the reality just to see that Jake has dropped his head forward and not even a sound was to be heard from him. She let down the bowl and the cloth, her hands grabbing softly his face.

“Jake?” she was already crying

“Jake?!”

She shook him. He slowly opened his eyes, blurry from the pain.

She removed the wood.

“Why?” He whispered.

It hurt to say it but she had to.

“Because you cheated on me. With that Ikran clan leader.”

He looked at her, his eyes full of sorrow.

“I didn`t.” He felt it harder to speak with every next word.

“Don`t lie to me Jake, I saw you that night, near the ikrans”

He was shoked.

“She…we have been together once before the battle. And…she wanted more” He choked.

She let his face and backed up a little, the memories returning to her.

He continued.

“She had put something in my food. I didn`t know it and I didn`t know what I was doing. It felt like in a dream. I…I…realized where I was and what was going on just before we could…”

He stopped, he didn`t have the strength to continue. But he tried.

“Nothing happened. I could not be with another woman. You are the only for me. You will always be.”

She looked deep into his eyes, and saw his honesty. This was not a lie. This was the truth.

“Jake…” she sighed, suppressing her cry.

What has she done? This was all so wrong. She leaned and kissed him softly, feeling her and his tears mix together. She felt him trying to respond to the kiss, she felt his warm breath. But then she couldn`t feel anything more. She opened her eyes just to see him motionless, still, hanging from the ropes like a puppet.

“Jake…”