Chapter 300

He did like punishing me. There was so much they had not gotten to try yet, much of it he thought would excite me terribly. This was a good excuse to try some of Damien’s skill with the flogger.

For a split second I felt intense fear. I remembered the intimate pain they had inflicted on me and my breathing amped up. I did not want that again. The pain and loss of control were awful. Wide eyes met Bane’s and I saw the displeasure in his.

They had expected to teach and train with pain, not cause permanent fear. This was not the result they had wanted. I was just supposed to learn an important lesson and move on. It did not work that way with me, though.

Jumbled memories showed them flashbulbs of nightmares and many nights of lost sleep. Since they’d beaten me I’d feared them and buried my distrust for them. I had felt lost and very alone.

They stopped, all of them, and looked at me. Even Damien and Evan stopped and looked in my direction. I was family and this