Bite Me Harder (Guardians of the Deep 2)

“Oh, look who has a bun in the oven,” Evelyn said, pointing at Penny’s stomach. “So, the king will finally have a prince or a princess. Now, what if I were to grab you by your pretty little hair and drag your ass out there into the water. I wonder how that might change things.”

“How did that work for you the last time?” Penny said. “I seem to remember kicking your ass underwater.”

“Did you?” Evelyn asked. “Or was it that great white friend of yours, Poet? That was his name, right? Pity what happened to him. He was kind of cute. Too bad he had to die so your sorry ass could be spared.”

Sylvia couldn’t believe it. Penny lifted her foot up with lightning fast speed and kicked Evelyn square in the chest. The woman stumbled backward, set her feet, and hissed. Not like a snake, but like a pissed off bull, fuming and ready to attack. Then it was a full-on brawl. Like watching a high schoo

l scrimmage, the shirts versus the skins, the clothed good guys took on the naked villains.

All Sylvia could do was watch. Thane punched the guy with the lifeless eye and Evelyn ran at Penny but was tackled by Faith. The names of Sylvia’s new friends eluded her as the action moved in every direction. A punch, a kick, a body slam. Jagger picked one guy up and slammed him down on top of his knee, a blow that probably would have broken the back of a normal human, but the bald gangster rolled off his knee and moaned before climbing back to his feet and coming at Jagger again.

One of the guys grabbed Ruby by the neck and looked down at her pregnant stomach.

“Looks like we’ve got another one waiting to hatch!” the mohawked asshole yelled.

Kino roared like a bear and grabbed the guy in a chokehold from behind, screaming out his rage as he did his best to squeeze the life out of the man who’d threatened his woman.

“Look what we have here,” came a raspy voice that sounded almost as if it were gargling liquid with each syllable.

Sylvia looked up to see a man with a deformed face walking her way. One of his eyes was closed and looked as if it had been pulled halfway down his cheek. His other eye was normal, but his head seemed misshapen, as if he’d gotten hit by a car, face first, and had never healed properly.

“Please,” Sylvia said as she scooted on her ass, trying to get away from the man.

“I ain’t never dipped my dick in anything as sweet as you,” the guy said.

“Leave me alone,” Sylvia said. “I mean it.”

“You mean what, princess?” he taunted her. “You gonna turn into a polar bear or somethin’? ‘Cause that’s about the only thing that’d scare the likes of me. I done seen it all, baby.”

The man walked forward slowly, talking with his approach. He seemed to want her to beg. He looked down at Sylvia, at the bathing suit top she wore, and he grinned. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that his cock was stiffening. He was getting a full-fledged hard-on. He lowered a hand and gripped himself, stroking it once, twice.

Sylvia closed her eyes and prayed. She saw flashes of the barge party. The blood. A severed foot. A screaming woman. Splintered wooden planks. The beady eye of the shark.

“Penny,” she tried to call out, but her voice was stuck in her throat. “Thane.”

She could have been calling out to them from under water because her voice failed to go anywhere.

“You’re human, aren’t you?” the man asked.

His eyes lit up and he seemed to get more excited at the realization that she was. Sylvia looked right and saw that everyone else was still fighting. No one was even looking her way. It was over. The guy leaned forward and reached for her hair.

“You want some of this, don’t you?” the man asked.

“No, but I do,” a second voice said.

A flash of pale light and Sylvia saw a new guy, white in the darkness of night. He grabbed the man by his hair and rained a closed hammer fist down against the guy’s face, shattering his nose in a spray of blood. Her attacker fell to the ground and she finally got a good look at her savior. He was huge, massive, and completely naked. He ran at the man who’d attacked her and kicked him hard in the chest. The guy curled up on the ground and whined, begging him to stop. The power of her white knight was astonishing. He seemed to have ten times the strength of the guy now in the fetal position in front of her.

The pale man held out a hand to her, and as she took it, she couldn’t help looking past his hand and seeing the huge cock between his legs. She wasn’t in a sexual mood, she wasn’t even in a flirtatious one. She’d been seconds away from being raped, but the sheer magnitude of this thing was ridiculous. Finally, she tore her eyes away from it and looked at his face as he pulled her to her feet.

“You’re okay now,” he promised. “Stay with me.”

“I’ll never leave you,” she said in a trance like state, only realizing after she said it how dumb she sounded.

“Thane!” he yelled.

His voice thundered so loud it stopped the fight altogether. People on both sides of the fray looked at him, and Sylvia slunk back in his shadow, still terrified of Evelyn and the control she had over her sharks.

“Cobalt,” Thane said as he took Penny’s hand and led her away from the others, pushing her toward Sylvia. “Penny, stay with Sylvia.”