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.
my pride and padding
see me crawl, to humiliate me
He had succeeded.
over this. I would have chosen the chains. I would have begged to be
this... this was
about obedience. It was about erasing
another. They didn’t meet my gaze. Not
The melodic sound of the bell
Kael’s hand. To the collar at my throat. And then they looked away, fast, as if seeing me hurt
if I
burned with shame and I felt like digging a
and barked a sharp order without even
"Head maid."
the hall
"Yes, Alpha Kael."
to leave my chamber," he
A silence fell.
My chest tightened.
he
her available. When I want her. Where I want her.
head maid
at me. Not
agreed to cage me. Not when she accepted what
The leash tugged again.
And so was
stone floors that once echoed
at the end of
yanked the leash forward, pulling me inside. I
didn’t want him to
let him have
Not even now.
~~~
Kael’s POV
me
the estate like a dog—She still had the audacity to glare at me. Her
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