The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 34: Chapter 34: I want her owned.

Selene’s POV

The next morning...

The cold clink of the chains unlocking echoed through the punishment room.

I didn’t move.

My wrists dropped heavily to my sides, blood rushing back into my numb arms. The sudden ache barely registered—because something far worse had already settled inside me.

Kael didn’t speak.

He simply tugged the leash.

The collar tugged at my throat, not harshly, but enough to make me stumble forward.

The bell rang. A small, delicate jingle. Innocent in sound. Cruel in meaning.

My legs obeyed because I couldn’t afford to fall, because I am sure he would start dragging me like that without giving me the chance to stood up.

We stepped into the corridor, and with every slow step, the little bell jingled, soft and rhythmic.

I kept my head down.

My hair fell like a curtain around my face, shielding me. Not out of fear. Not even out of shame.

But because if I saw someone—anyone—I didn’t know if I could survive it.

My fists clenched at my sides, trembling.

I wanted to rip the leash from his hand. I wanted to claw that smirk from his face. I wanted to scream.

But I did none of those things.

Because this—this moment—was the real punishment.

He had found it. The one thing I couldn’t endure.

of my pride and

me crawl, to humiliate me in

He had succeeded.

would have taken lashes over this. I would have chosen the chains. I would have begged to be

this was

wasn’t about obedience. It was about

passed a servant. Then another. They didn’t meet my gaze.

sound of the bell

in Kael’s hand. To the collar at my

if I

I felt like digging a

for a moment, and barked a sharp order without even turning his

"Head maid."

the hall

"Yes, Alpha Kael."

my chamber," he said coldly. "Or my

A silence fell.

My chest tightened.

did he just

want her available. When I want her. Where I want

head maid

at me. Not

Not when she accepted what

The leash tugged again.

And so was I—because I

animal across stone floors that once echoed with the sound of my own confident

the end of the corridor

leash forward, pulling

want him to see

wouldn’t let him have

Not even now.

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Kael’s POV

me like

dog—She still had the audacity to glare at me. Her eyes,