Her own eyes moved down his body. She saw his cock hardening in his leather pants. It had formed a huge tent, straining against the fabric.
The sight of it made her quiver despite herself.
Morgath followed her gaze. Now they were both staring at his erection.
“Huh. It appears you’re doing something to me. Unexpected.”
A pause, as they both tried to understand what was happening.
“All right, you’ll do,” he said. “Now get dressed and let’s go. I’ve wasted half a day already.”
Not the reaction she’d expected from a man who’d just gotten as hard as a rock at the sight of her nakedness.
Audrey got dressed quickly. When he walked past her, she let him. She was shivering, and not from the cold. She felt humiliated, but at the same time, oddly satisfied that the sight of her naked body had had an effect on him.
Just as she was thinking it might be a bad thing, Morgath spoke again.
“Just because you made me hard once doesn’t mean I’ll touch you,” he said, “I’ve never been attracted to your kind, and never will be.”
“So, you don’t want to put that cock in me?”
“No,” he said. “I haven’t been inside a female for sixteen years. Even so, I don’t have the slightest interest in you.”
He opened the door and left the room.
Audrey stood there for a moment, adjusting her dress. She should’ve felt relieved that she wouldn’t have to fuck him.
Instead, she felt oddly hollow.
Chapter Five
Audrey ran to her room the moment Monica dismissed her. A bunch of documents had needed signing to make her officially Morgath the Skullreaper’s property.
Her hands shook as she turned the doorknob and slipped inside, closing the door behind her with more force than necessary. She needed to change out of this ridiculous dress and pack her things before Morgath finished the paperwork downstairs.
She stripped off the green dress and threw it on the bed. Morgath clearly didn’t care what she wore. The whole idea of seducing him had been a waste of effort. She pulled on her usual clothes – jeans, a tank top, and a worn leather jacket – and instantly felt more like herself.
She forced herself to focus on the task at hand rather than the humiliation she’d just suffered. Standing naked in front of him while he looked at her like she was a piece of meat he was considering buying had been degrading. But it had worked. She was going with him, and that was all that mattered. She would identify her family’s killer soon, maybe even today if she was lucky.
Audrey grabbed her duffel bag from the closet and started stuffing her belongings inside. She packed her clothes, then carefully placed her weapons at the bottom of the bag and covered them with more clothing. The knives went in first, wrapped in a spare shirt, then the handgun tucked into a rolled-up pair of jeans. The radio and extra batteries were wrapped in a sweater. She made sure nothing rattled or shifted when she picked up the bag.
Her phone buzzed with a text from Shauna asking for an update, but Audrey ignored it. She would text everyone once she was on the road. She grabbed her charger and the two powerbanks, shoving them into the side pocket of the bag. Once the power banks and her phone died, she would lose all connection to the modern world. Because orcs didn’t have electricity. That was why the radio was so important. It ran on batteries, and she had brought plenty of those.
She took one last look around the room to make sure she hadn’t forgotten anything, then hauled the heavy bag over her shoulder and headed downstairs.
Morgath stood near the front entrance. The skull helmet turned toward her as she approached, and she felt that same jolt of fear she’d experienced the first time. She’d need to get used to that skull if she was going to live with him.
He reached for her bag, and she let him take it. It was heavy enough that most men would’ve struggled with it, but he lifted it like it weighed nothing.
“A lady shouldn’t carry heavy things,” he said. “Make sure you behave like a lady from now on.”
Audrey huffed and followed him outside. She wasn’t going to argue with him, not when they were still at the institute and he could change his mind.
The afternoon air was chilly, and Audrey pulled her jacket tighter around herself. Early spring in Montana meant the temperature still dropped when the sun wasn’t high in the sky. The institute’s gravel parking area was nearly empty except for an orc car parked near the gate.
The vehicle looked like a hybrid between a car and a carriage, like it had been pieced together from other vehicles. The color was a faded gray, and the metal body was dented and scratched in places. It had no roof, just a frame and open sides, with huge wheels that looked like they’d been taken from a truck.
Another orc sat atop a krag nearby, and Audrey recognized him as a raider by the tattoos around his neck and wrists. Thekrag was a massive brown beast with a rich mane that reminded her of a lion’s. The creature was almost as big as an elephant.
