Chapter 234

• After a moment, he released me, and I fell to the floor. He stepped over me like I was nothing but a piece of trash. “Do what you need to do to get her in line,” he told his men. “But she is not to be raped and she is not to leave this room. She might still be worth something.”
• Scrambling up from the floor, I shoved my hair from my face and stared at them with a defiant expression.
• The guard to my right smiled as he cracked the knuckles of his right hand, and my heart stuttered in my chest.