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 padding me like a
what Kael wanted—to see me crawl, to
He had succeeded.
lashes over this. I would have chosen the
this... this
It was about erasing who I used to
Then another. They didn’t
they all heard the sound. The melodic sound of the bell and with each step shame crawl to
in Kael’s hand. To the collar at my throat. And then they looked away, fast, as if seeing me
if I were
shame and I felt like digging a hole to burry
a moment, and
"Head maid."
stepped out of the hall like
"Yes, Alpha Kael."
not to leave my chamber,"
A silence fell.
My chest tightened.
did he just
want her available. When I want her. Where I want
head maid
look at me. Not even
Not when she accepted what I was
The leash tugged again.
kept moving. And so was I—because I
across stone floors that once echoed with the sound
the end of the
opened the door and yanked the leash forward, pulling me inside. I
I didn’t want him to see
let him have
Not even now.
~~~
Kael’s POV
looked at me like she still
had the audacity to glare
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