ob'

ng m

in my own mind as usual-doing thi

y would the Goddess bind me

on my forehead as fear washed over me like ice, along

was dragged away. I was thrown into a pris

eeks

l no

er. No message

d-stained wall, my eyes fixed on the full

le to shift after that

footsteps-slow and steady-the rustle o

k as the cell

fr

essed in a flo

sually, "what hav

t me to rot in a cel

me here for nothing. You eith

r lips, like I ha

e that I was mated

u isn't an option. But I'm stil

ng?" I

until I figure out w

e vanished-without spa

lid down

ke it had plunged into the depths of

Passed around like a commodi

soul-to one of the wo

rned int

No voices

he had deci

ody rot bene

moon stared

l no

olf had vanished,

hout it. Or as the others would say-a lowly, a

sixth mark

through me before he said casually, "It s

und my wrists, and

t my face

he was taking me,

re h

by two giants. Before I could even t

tood

s, eyes bluer than the sea, her

d to a

espite her brutalit

seems I've finally found a

mach t

edge of her bed, watching me l

urpose and control-the

y in my room. No arguments. Our weddin

n begin to descr

beyo

s fu

e without my consent, you're

ing the bond, killing yourself, or

thout my consent. It d

b Adams,

oded thro

pierced

cre

ng closer, "it seems you take me for

nt of me, her eyes

in this life and the next. Don

eath my knee as

and poured her blood down my throat-then

nd dee

is

far beyond what the

my bed. No questions. No resistance. I suggest

heets as if she hadn't ju

" she added. "It won

ch i

ce smeared with blood, the other

or

for what she h

ha! Help-we

ng came fr

oked

was

shed

re me rooted m

seen anyth

had I been