Chapter 17

Katarina's POV

I pressed my eyes shut, tears aggressively trying to get out and my heart threading to escape my chest. I bit my lips not to scream, I felt angry, vulnerable. I was tied up at his mercy.

Driven by anger, I thrashed harder against the ropes as the chair squeaked with my struggles when I watched Kai caressing her cheek.

A psycho.

Scared, my lips wobbled and cries tore through my throat. I was too ignorant to feel Xerxes playing with my hair as he twirled the strands. And my head jerked as he fisted my hair and jerk my head back as my neck strained, his eyes found mine.

“Disobey me one more time, and I’ll make you suffer,” he whispered the words against my ears.

I realised. I was not staring at my mate but into a new form of darkness, a kind I never knew existed. One that made the small hairs on the back of my neck rise, and my heart pound in my chest. With a wicked smile pulling up the corner of his lips, he squatted