He grabbed my arm, and I instantly wrappedmine around his to trap it in place, but his other hand came aroundand tore the flimsy material of the “dress” from my body in onestrong tug. The clothing ripped like it was made of paper, and Iwas instantly naked again, covering myself as best I could with myarms and hands.
“What thefuck!” I shouted at him.
He charged at me then, his large bodyintense with so much capability as he quickly backed me into awall, my arms and hands too concerned with keeping myself coveredfrom him to defend myself.
When I felt my back touch the wall, myshoulders hunched and my skin broke out in goosebumps as I staredstraight into my now owner’s cold blue eyes. I could feel the firefuming from my own gaze as I burned him alive with my starealone.
“Iexpect you to do exactly as I say,exactly when I say it, without question or complaint, no matterwhat the fuck objections you think you’re entitled to!”
His voice was chilling and loud, and it mademeflincheven more, my eyesleaving his to hide away from the wrath emanating from his glare. Ifelt so helpless and vulnerable standing there naked and small as Iattempted to conceal myself from him and failed miserably.
“Drop your hands, Jaden. You don’t get tohide from me anymore,” he demanded.
“No,” I replied weakly, the word nearlycoming out as a whisper as he chipped away at my resolve piece bypiece.
Before I could blink, his hands slammed intothe wall on either side of my head, causing me to flinch again.Anxiety was pounding away inside my head, and I was beginning towonder how long I could keep my façade going. He kept his hands inplace as he slowly lowered his head to my ear, his breath ticklingmy skin and sending shivers up my spine.
“My previous threat still stands. I will nottell you again.”
My heart was pounding in my chest as I triedto keep my breathing level calm. With easy movements, I gentlydropped my hands to the side and clenched my fists until I felt mynails bite into my palm.
“There’s a good girl,” he drawled, hisfingers reaching down to clutch my chin in a gentle, yet possessivegrip. I turned away from his touch, shivering in disgust, but hishand refused to release me. “So beautiful … and so mine.”
Don’t fucking touchme.
“Now, would you rather leave here naked, orwould you prefer clothes?” he asked.
I exhaled a heavy annoyed breath as I staredoff to the side. “Clothes.” I sighed.
He then slowly leaned down and tapped theside of his right cheek with his forefinger, a smart-ass smirkonhis lips as he looked down atme. Anger seethed through me as it became clear he was enjoyingthis little game as his mood improved every time he put myresourceful king in check. I felt like just MikeTyson’ingit and biting his whole damn ear off,but I didn’t think that would end well.
So I swallowed my pride and raised up on mystupid fucking tiptoes toward his stupid smug face, but just as Iwas about to drop the quickest,tiniestpeckin theworld, he suddenly grabbed my chin, holding it in place and kissedme on the lips hard. Shock sparked through my body, causing me toimmediately withdraw from his advance, but his tight grip on mychin refused to allow any such movement. He held me there for onlya second before releasing me and standing back to his fullheight.
“Sorry.” He smiled with a shrug. “Couldn’tresist.”
I scowled at him as he held up the littlerednightiein front of me.
“Arms up,” he ordered.
I felt extra vulnerable doing so, but I didit anyway and let him slip the pretty red fabric over my head. Thefeeling of the material felt strange but in a good way. It was softand silky, the fabric loose yet tight over my body, and I quicklywrapped my arms around my torso, hoping to permanently mend thecloth to my skin. The owner just gave me another one of his twistedlittle grins.
Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out hisphone and clicked something on it. There was a slight beep thatcame from the collar and I had a feeling he had activated somethingin it, signaling the beginning of my prison sentence.
“These cuffs, the ones on your wrists andankles,” he said, still holding out his phone, “contain extremelystrong magnets, that when activated, cannot be pulled apart unlessthey are deactivated. Let me show you.”
He pushed another button on his phone andinstantly, my wrists and ankles were pulled together by aninvisible force so strong and fast, I didn’t even have time tofight against it. My balance was almost lost when my ankles cametogether, nearly falling over, but the owner’s arm reached out tocatch me before I could hit the floor. Panic then ensued me.
I pulled and twisted my limbs, trying tofree them from the force that bound them together, but they wouldnot budge. He chuckled at my obvious annoyance and struggle. Hepushed the button again and freed my wrists and ankles.
“The collar around your neck contains a veryhigh-tech GPS signal that pinpoints your exact location at alltimes. It also transmits a signal to the server at my estate toalert me should you ever try to pass the perimeter I have set foryou. I can enlarge the perimeter or shorten it any time, but thatwill depend on you. If you do ever manage to come too close to theperimeter boundary, you will receive a slight warning shock. Shouldyou ignore the warning and continue past the range, you will havefive seconds to return to the designated perimeter before youreceive the full voltage. From what I understand, it’s not apleasantfeeling,so I would avoidit if I were you.”
I suddenly felt dizzy, the walls around mebeginning to shift as I realized I had just allowed myself tobecome microchipped with a fucking shock collar. So long as I worethis fucking thing, he would always know where I was. How the fuckcould I escape from him like that? I feltnauseatedas I tried to get a grip on the spinning roomaround me, my arm reaching out for the wall while my breathingbecome erratic as the promise of escape began to dwindle.
And then I felt the warmth of the owner’shands on either side of my face, holding me in place and keeping mesteady.
“Shhhh,” he said. “Calm down and breathe,Jaden. Everything is going to be fine. I’m going to take care ofyou.”
I looked up at him in confusion. Take careof me how?
