Chapter 71

ADRIANA

The tears kept rolling down my cheeks. I stood frozen, feeling Xander's anger crackling in the air the longer I stayed not doing as he asked me to do. I just couldn't bring myself to remove my clothes in front of him.

"Xander, please." I tried again, my voice shaking when I spoke and barely making it out. "Please don't make me do that."

I didn't care that I sounded pathetic, I would get on my knees and beg him if it meant it would make him change his mind. I wasn't going to give up without trying. I haven't fought many of the people in my father's pack to lose my dignity so easily.

The one time I knew I fought back when someone had hit me was when my father's old gamma tried to take advantage of me when I was sixteen. He'd not been in his right senses and I was in the kitchen when he entered. He tried to force himself on me, he was much stronger than I was and he'd even gotten far e