(Ellora's Cave) Jaid Black - Breeding Ground.pdf

BREEDING GROUND
An Ellora’s Cave Publication, September 2004
Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Inc.
merce Drive, #13
Stow, OH 44224
ISBN MS Reader (LIT) ISBN # 1-84360-837-5
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BREEDING GROUND © 2004 JAID BLACK
Edited by Heather Osborn.
Cover art by Darrell King.

Breeding Ground
Jaid Black

Part I:
The Haunting
Prologue
She shivered from where she lay curled up in a ball on the red earthen floor, her arms
wrapped around her up drawn knees, her eyes unblinking. She was cold, hungry, and
broken—at last broken.
Just as he had planned. Just as he had always wanted.
He kept her in a cage, naked and half-starving, like a neglected animal in a zoo. Every
day her will to resist him grew weaker and weaker. Every day the hunger gnawed at her
belly until the pangs felt like sharp talons clawing at her gut.
She was weak. So fucking weak. She needed nourishment—food and water. Oh God,
how she fantasized about water trickling down her dry, parched throat…
She would never be given water unless she did what he wanted.
No, she thought in horror. How can I let that…that…thing touch me? How can I—
“I would have your answer,” he purred.
She closed her eyes against the sound of his voice. She was so frail that not even her
hearing worked as acutely as it once did, for she hadn’t realized until he’d spoken that
he’d approached the cage. She could feel his devil’s-eyes on her, though, just like always.
Coiled up in a ball with her back to him, she still knew the precise moment when his
eerie golden gaze flicked to her buttocks…and then onward to the folds of flesh visible
between her legs.
That flesh was what he wanted. That and a whole lot more. He wanted things from her
that were so sick and frightening they didn’t bear dwelling on.
“Answer me,” he hissed, “or I leave you here for another night.”
By the morning