Lib Novel Page 137
She did, instantly sinking to the floor.
“Hands behind your back, knees wide.”
The guard’s gaze was riveted. But it wasn’t him I watched in the corner of my eye, it was Coulter. The bastard looked our way for a second, but it didn’t last before his focus moved back to Helene.
“Show him.” My tone was hard and husky. “Turn over, cheek against the floor.”
I swallowed the flinch as she turned onto her knees, then lowered her face to the floor, desperate to obey like the Daughter she was.
“Spread yourself.” I snarled. “Show him what could be his.”
The tips of her fingers dug into soft flesh as she gripped her plump ass and spread herself wide. A low, tortured groan came from the guard in front of me.
My brother was right.
It wasn’t excitement I felt at the sight of this woman.
It was savagery.
I wanted to grab her by the back of her neck. To bellow and roar in her face until her eyes shimmered with tears. I wanted to cast her aside, right into the middle of the pack of these ravenous wolves. And while they tore her apart, I wanted to capture the woman I loved…and get her the hell out of here.
My body trembled with that need until it was crushing.
“You want to tie her up?” I started. “You want to fuck her until you forget your problems, you can.”
He jerked a wide, startled gaze my way,
“You want to bring your buddies over to your house and have her service all of them in front of you? You can do that too. You can do anything you want with her. Every dark, debased, carnal desire you ever harbored in secret, you can finally drag into the light. She won’t scream when you fuck her brutally…unless you want that. She won’t ever say no, or I’m tired, or go away. How does that make you feel?”
“Like a god.” He croaked.
The corner of my mouth twitched.Exactly.
He jerked that desperate stare my way. “How much? Whatever it is, I’ll pay it.”
I stepped past him, heading across the room. “You couldn’t afford it.” It was Coulter I made for, standing in front of the bastard who was about to cast Helene to Hale in two goddamn days. “But you can.”
He never looked away from me.
Want her, you sonofabitch, wantherand not Helene.
Coulter just looked past me, at the Daughter still spread wide for everyone to see, before he met my stare once more and smiled.
THIRTY-FOUR
Helene
The room swayedin front of me. I looked down at the fading sting in my arm and tried to hold on to my senses. Rows of us stood there waiting.
OBEY.
CONTROL.
DAUGHTER.
The words resounded inside my head until Iwasthe blazing neon white words. I wasobey.I wascontrol.I wasDaughter.Sharp cries inside the room disappeared, like they’d never been there at all. Maybe they hadn’t? Maybe this was all just a dream?
It felt like a dream.