Chapter Nineteen

I followed after him, a sense of dread settling in the pit of my stomach.

He led me back into our room and shut the door. Inhaled.

“Things went rough with your mother, right?” He asked, this question I did not expect.

“She doesn’t like you very

you very much.”

“That’s understandable,” he says. “You know, you did well today–with my father, I mean.”

“I did?”

“Yes. Though I didn’t miss the fact that you had again disobeyed me, You took off the clothes -was it because of your mother?“.

“Yes… No. I couldn’t walk around looking like a whore.”

He walked closer, and it took everything in me to stand still. His fingers traced the fabric of the brown gown I had chosen–without asking for permission, of course.

“You liked being well covered?” He asked

“Yes”

“Just like my mother, Freya??

my heart skipped a bit right there. I remembered the scars all over

happen to

business if I were you;

are just like him–you are just like your father, aren’t

told you that I believe.”

“Was she wrong?”

father’s son; what

the words from him

to me, but the truth was that she had no reason to be. Still. I worried that I had put her in more

other things did my mother tell you?” he

what to expect from men like

that change anything? I am more than sure that if time were taken back, you would

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Chapter Nineteen

sign the contract, even with the knowledge of what

I wouldn’t let you treat me

around my

anyone hurt

It’s fun to watch,” he says, finally letting me go. Axel will be on his way; he will give you

leaving?” I questioned–I couldn’t deny that a part of me had thought he was going to punish

right?. I would have loved to do just that–punish you,” he says, and I wondered if he could read minds because I was sure I hadn’t said that

“But you won’t?”

wait till I get a clearance from the healers,” he says, and had almost muttered the words ‘thank you‘, but I held it in. Why

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