Chapter 15: Perfect Timing

Rose

I place a hand over my chest to cover the rips in my dress Darius left.

Shame burns deep within me. I’m fighting back tears, keeping my head down while walking back to my bedroom. I’m no different from the warriors' slaves. A sex tool.

I thought the Lycan King was different, but Jacob was right. I’m only Darius’s plaything.

A tear finally drops as I open my bedroom door, slamming it closed while I sink to the ground against it.

I was only trying to help him last night, but look at what he did to me.

I feel so dirty and used. My knees touch my chest when I wrap my arms around my legs.

He called me a whore.

I fist my chest, the pain is like something drilling into my heart. It’s terrible. I thought he wanted to make me his. That I wasn’t just one of his possessions.

I thought Darius cared for me. I was a fool.

How many times will you let men do this to you, Rose?

I crawl over to my bed and curl up in it, sobbing myself to sleep, where it won’t hurt so much anymore.

Later tha