ep inside me long after t

didn'

ng slow circles along the curve of my spine. I knelt in the dirt, trembling, raw, and wet. My slick dri

ed. Opened.

was pro

of me-his enemy's daughter

is pack, his loyal followers. Their eyes drank in my sham

nape of my neck. "Still pulsing around me," he

you," I

huck

e said darkly. "You h

to emphasize the knot inside me. I ga

commanded, voi

than me, stronger. One carried a folded length of sheer

ard as he pulled, a wet pop echoing when the swollen bulb finally slid out. My insides a

ped a thin, transparent shift over my head. It clung to my sweat-slicked skin, d

t. Still leaki

ili

exactly wha

y neck like a leash. I was taller than most Omegas in my territory-my father's pride-but next to

as we moved. But

face t

n't just

re witn

r of House Veyne, defi

ne

A few females licked their lips. The males inhal

dared

alked like a conqueror

" he said softly. "The o

d not

h humiliation. My cheeks were wet. I d

e camp-a stone-walled den with

ed to t

he will sleep in my den. She will kneel when commanded. And

d through the crowd-hal

my legs were jelly, and Kael's h

hat you are now?" he

at him, my l

e a mo

smi

don't knot

large bed of moss and hides waited in the center. To one side, a sh

side. He sat on the bed and spread his legs w

didn'

im-and left me

knees," K

sita

d. "I won't repea

loor, pain flar

highs slick again despite myself. I hated how my body responded. Hated

day," Kael said,

ens

't do a

nd brushing down the curve of my back, over th

you want? Fo

imply. "I want

neck. A strip of thick leather, freshly stamped with h

ad no clas

word carved in

i