Chapter 288

The keepers rushed to separate us. They got soaked pulling us out of the water and away from one another. I forced myself to calm down and not fight the man holding me, that would have been pointless. He just carried me as his brothers carried the other girls from the beach into their building.

Slaves aren’t allowed to hurt each other, the keepers reminded us as they fixed our wounds. I was scratched and bruised, but the other girls were in much worse shape. Healers were summoned for Vesa’s jaw and her friend’s nose; I had broken both.

Standing in the all too familiar punishment room I wondered at my circumstances. Being stuck to the wall wasn’t uncomfortable, but my back still throbbed. That worried me less than the future, though. I was certain fighting with the head administrator’s slave would be grounds for serious punishment. Hopefully Damien and his brothers would protect me.

They would, I suddenly knew. The men were livid that I had been attacked. They would