JessicaKaye911

“Why’re you looking at me like that?” I whispered. The Lycan King Lucien Volkov didn’t answer. His fingers brushed over the bruises on my back before they stopped at the faded scars around my shoulder. “Who did this to you?” I lowered my eyes, “My family.” He clenched his jaw, “And who did this?” He placed his finger on a whiplash mark near my boob. “My family,” my voice dropped to a whisper as I lowered my gaze. Silence settled between us. I thought he would mock me; instead, his thumb traced one of the scars, sending a shiver down my spine. “You’re angry because these scars look ugly,” I said in a small voice. His golden gaze hardened, “I’m angry because they laid their hands on what’s mine. I need to remind them, Arabella, that touching you has consequences.” *** Arabella Toussaint was born the beta’s daughter. The day she lost her mother, she lost her family too. Her Beta father brought home his mistress and her children, and overnight she became a servant in her own home. A fucking slave. On her eighteenth birthday, she planned to run away, but she never got the chance. Her brother murdered the Alpha King’s sister, and the King came to claim her sister as payment. Arabella’s family offered her instead. Marked by the ruthless Alpha King, she was dragged to his kingdom as a slave to pay for a crime she never committed. They thought they had chosen the weaker daughter. They were wrong. Every humiliation, every scar, and every betrayal peeled away another piece of the girl she used to be, awakening something far darker that had been buried inside her all along. They thought they were breaking her. None of them realized they were awakening a monster inside her. Not even Lucien Volkov saw it coming. By the time he understood, it was too late.