Fight, Flight, or Fr Chapter 148: One Word Answers

Chapter 148: One Word Answers

I was only sowhat prepared when the screams started in the fighter’s area. The sun was setting, and this was when the fights typically began. But what was unusual was the fact that I couldn’t hear the roar of the crowd over top of the screams.

Still holding the newcor’s hand, I listened closely. Rip was out there with all of the screaming, and I needed to know that it was him causing the sound.

But the more I listened, the more I realized that these weren’t the typical sounds that I had heard every night, for god only knew how long.

No, these screams were of... terror...

I started to shake as I looked around for Rip. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that if sothing had happened in the camp, he would be beside

as soon as he could. And the fact that he wasn’t was sending

into a tailspin.

Was this going to happen all over again? I warned soone that sothing was off, and they left

anyway?

Was he going to die just like the others?

"It’s okay," said the woman beside . This ti, it was her turn to offer

comfort, and I took it with both hands. "My husbands are just celebrating the good news."

I blinked a few tis at her words... the screams were her husbands happy? Wait, that wasn’t the point. She had husbands? As in more than one?

"Husbands?" I asked. I couldn’t think about what was going on outside of my imdiate vicinity, so I might have been more than a little fixated on the idea of husbands.

"Husbands," she nodded. "Four of them, to be exact."

Just as the words had left her mouth, a shadow fell over the two of us, blocking out what little light there was.

My heart jumped right before I heard the shadow speak. "Where is the cat?" it demanded, and I couldn’t hold back the laugh that ripped out of .

Rip. He was here. He was safe.

"Rip, you’re safe," I breathed, letting go of the other woman’s hand to grip Rip’s.

Rip shrugged his massive shoulders as he sat down in front of my cage, taking up his usual position. "They won’t hurt ," he grunted, and I quickly gripped the back of his shirt. Despite the situation, I had to smile. It was nostalgic holding on to him like this.

"Where’s the cat?" he asked again, looking at the new woman. But the woman didn’t seem to be paying any attention to Rip as a look of panic crossed her face for a mont.

In the blink of an eye, a giant animal appeared in the cage with her, squishing her into the bars. The large back cat had to be at least 30 lbs, and he definitely didn’t look impressed with his new situation.

She must be a special space user. Most of them couldn’t have living beings in their space, or at least, that was what the rumors said.

I should know better than most not to believe rumors.

The screaming around us intensified as Rip stood up and walked over to the other cage.

I would fully admit to being upset over the fact that his movents ant that my hand was ripped from his shirt, but when he pulled the door off of the other cage to grab the cat, I was jealous.

Of a fucking cat.

Who belonged to soone else.

But as soon as he got the cat in his arms, he walked back to his original position and sat down, stroking the black furball.

When I didn’t imdiately grip his shirt, he looked at

from over his shoulder and raised an eyebrow.

Slowly, tentatively, I reached out and took the cloth in my hand again.

"Nice to see you, too, Rip," said the new woman as she crawled out of the cage and went to sit on top of it. She looked so relaxed, even as the screams refused to die down, that I really questioned her sanity.

Maybe I should have checked that when I healed the rest of her body.

"Um... you two know each other?" I asked... my voice was more of a stamr. I shook my own head in disgust. Where was the confident woman from Rip’s cabin? He showed interest in another woman, and it was like a knife to the chest, and I could barely form a sentence.

I already knew that they had t before; she had said as much a few minutes ago. But now it was hitting differently. And I didn’t like it.

"She’s the one that sent

here to look after you."

Wow.... If there was ever a sentence to cut you down at the legs, it was that one. To hear soone you considered to be your ’boyfriend’ say that he was only here because so other woman had told him to look after you like you were so pet that couldn’t fend for yourself...

My stomach churned, threatening to co out.

Did he not feel the sa things as ? Or was this only a favor for a friend?

I an, yes, we did flirt... and there was so touching... but we never had sex. Maybe that was the reason?

My head was spinning with all the thoughts running through it, and I could feel myself sinking into depression.

I had given all my energy to this person, the one who felt like ho... and now I was unable to protect myself.

Fuck. I should have known better. I should have seen it coming.

Everyone wanted sothing from . Should she be any different?

I desperately tried to pull myself together, but I could feel myself unraveling at the seams.

"I told you about her," continued Rip. He turned around, his eyes narrowing on my face. "Rember? It was one night in the sumr a while back?"

I nodded my head like I understood what he was saying, but honestly, I could barely rember yesterday, let alone sothing that happened months ago.

"She’s the one you talked about?" I said, the smile on my face feeling fake, but that didn’t matter. Rip’s eyes narrowed even more as he nodded his head.

"Yup," he grunted as he continued to pet the cat on his lap.

Great. My Rip had never once said ’yup’ to ... was this a sign of things to co?

It didn’t matter.

As soon as the screams stopped, I would get him to open my cage, and I would leave.

Without him.

"You’re better," gasped the woman as she took the ti to study Rip.

"Yup," agreed Rip, sticking to his one-word answers. "She healed ."