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.
public stripping of my pride and padding me like a
what Kael wanted—to see me
He had succeeded.
taken lashes over this. I would have chosen the
this
It was about erasing who
Then another. They didn’t meet my
the sound. The melodic sound of the bell and with each step
eyes flickered briefly to the leash in Kael’s hand. To the collar at my throat. And then
if I were
felt like digging a hole
moment, and barked a sharp
"Head maid."
hall like she had been
"Yes, Alpha Kael."
leave my chamber," he said coldly. "Or
A silence fell.
My chest tightened.
he
want her. Where I want
maid
didn’t look at
me. Not when she accepted
The leash tugged again.
moving. And so was I—because
an animal across stone floors that once echoed with the sound of my own confident
at the end of the corridor loomed
door and yanked the leash forward, pulling me inside. I staggered. Caught myself. Didn’t
because I didn’t want him to
let him
Not even now.
~~~
Kael’s POV
at me like
edges of the estate like a dog—She still had the audacity to glare at me. Her eyes, bright and stubborn, flickered with
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