Chapter 228

“I’m not done!” She glared hard at him. “I know you think she loves you, and you’re already in love with her. She doesn’t love you! She is just using you so well. She is in slavery, what do you expect!? Or have you forgotten already?” She took a step closer to him. “In slavery, you do everything you can to be free. In slavery, you do everything you can to ease the pain, the torture, the suffering. It’s her strategy. You’re her strategy.” She laughed hollowly. “And oh, did it work so well! You threw me away for her, but she is just using you, Lucien!”

He said nothing. His eyes remained unreadable. In fact, he showed no reaction at all. That only angered Vetta the more. Made her more bitter. She walked closer to him until she stood in front of him. “As a slave master who has been a slave before, you forgot the most important thing. A slave will do anything at all to come out of slavery.” Her mouth to his ear, she lowered herself to a whisper. “Including...faking kind