e's

creaked open with a rusty

cheek pressed against the freezing stone

reacting anymore? Of

n the end - to torment and debase m

en his thunderous f

s hulking silhouette loom

ncerned my latest game had you beaten too soon. But it seems the

linch rippled through m

vicious Alpha even more, if his

rst glimmers of surrender

around my unmoving for

of his roving stare like a physical cares

thetic listlessness exempts you from fu

lindingly fast kick, blasting into

ping cry, clutching my flank as

attempting to mask his wicked delight at my anguish. "And I'll n

g, I barely registere

over me again that the implication

called m

, shaking my head in panicked denial.

"You don't get a choice, little omega. I'm the Alpha here - what I decree is law

sts, eyes darting wildly arou

indifference - a momentary hint of displeasure knittin

against him somehow, to g

s own twisted de

d to

ying me alive for my insolence, anything was better

esolve I had left, I lifted my

I forced the words out in a quavering

you'll have to earn that right. As any

ence broken only by the erratic pounding o

carved from immovable granite - except for the

exhaled a low rumbling breath laced with such simmering

a hair's breadth from outright snarl. "Because I must have misheard you

dess, what

as my lips began moving of their own

n of you so far is mindless barbarism and sadism. An Alpha worth being l-luna to would actually

e end, hunching in on myself on instinct

neve

, levelling me with a look of such immolating intensity

to my very soul, dissecting my every fleeting

his back and stalked out of the cell - but not

to play, so be it. We'll see if you still value your delusions of 'respec

hut behind him with an

king uncontrollably as the delaye

ness, my suicidal defiance towar

now, the sole plaything for Di

even fathom myself... I had spit dire

his mate through dignified courtship, rather th

ss, what h

s I curled into a tight ball, bracing myself for

e oblivion of death ten times over now, all

of defiance refused to be fully ex

ither way...at least let

nder and submission a

onvictions were all I h

hat I might somehow, by some miracle, e

could Dimitri take from

ven that burden was rapidly losing