CHAPTER 14

Months had passed since alpha Tristan had purchased me at that dreaded auction, and the torment had only grown worse with each passing day. I couldn’t help but regret the day I’d ever wished to be sold, desperate for freedom from my previous life. Now, all I yearned for was salvation from the clutches of Tristan.

It had been precisely three months since he brought me under his roof, and two months since he’d begun to have sex with me the way he liked, claiming me as his own. My days blurred together in a nightmare of maltreatment. His once-charming demeanor had faded off, replaced by a cruel and possessive man who seemed to revel in my misery.

This desperate evening, as I sat in the room that had over time become my prison, I folded my hands in a prayer to the moon goddess “Oh, moon goodness,” I whispered, my voice trembling. “If you can hear me, please send me another savior. I cannot endure this torment any longer.”

Tears welled in my eyes as I thought of the one glimmer of hope I h