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The smile vanished.
“What did you call me?”
I lifted my head and finally looked straight into her furious eyes.
“Isabeast,” I rasped. “The only name that fits.”
The room fell silent.
Chapter thirteen
Her hand tightened around the stun gun until her knuckles lost their color. For the first time since the blindfold came off, the smug mask slipped, and the woman underneath looked exactly like the name I’d given her.
Ugly. Rabid. A monster ready to bite anything that refused to worship her.
“You are such a stubborn boy.”
“And you’re still an ugly beast.”
None of the men made a sound. Her chin jerked up in frustration.
Good. The name had landed hard enough that everyone in the room felt it.
She leaned close. “I’m going to break you, Lachlan. You will learn to submit to me. You will learn that my pleasure is your pleasure, and every part of you exists because I allow it.”
The only pleasure I’d ever take from her would be watching the life leave her eyes.
I smiled.
Her nostrils flared. “Remove his shirt.”
Diego stepped in front of the chair. His fist caught the front of my shirt and ripped it open, scattering buttons across the concrete. Mateo came up behind me, and cold metal slid beneath the fabric near my wrists. He made a few quick cuts through the sleeves, then tore the shirt away from my shoulders.
Pain shot down my arms.
I rolled my shoulders as far as the restraints allowed, lifted my chin, and gave her nothing.
Isabeast circled the chair.
“Look at you,” she murmured as she circled. “Bruised ribs, raw wrists, marks all over that pretty body, and still pretending none of it matters.”
Her boots stopped directly in front of me.
“Much better. Damage suits you.” Her voice softened. “Especially when it belongs to me.”
“Keep dreaming.”
She moved between my knees and popped open the button at my waistband.
I went rigid.
The zipper came down one slow tooth at a time.
“There it is,” she murmured. “That fear you keep pretending you don’t feel.”
“You’re confusing disgust with fear.”
She tugged my pants lower, reached in, and exposed my cock to the room.
