Chapter Thirty-Nine
Mia POV The searing pain of yet another scale ripped from my body had me roaring in agony. The man purveyed his new treasure, grinning from ear to ear as it iridescently changed colour in the light. He gently placed it in a jar of green liquid before reaching for his syringe again. He stabbed it into the hole he had just made by removing the scale, the needle piercing the already damaged skin like paper and I felt it hit bone. He pulled at the plunger and tears sprang to my eyes as he extracted a pinkish white liquid, my energy seeming to leave me. he pulled the syringe from me and I collapsed to the floor, the hard concrete chilling me to the bone. His hands had me flinching as he stroked at my neck, his fingers running lovingly across the remaining scales. “I’ll be back a little bit l
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