Kai’s POVI’d had a truly satisfying day of punishing my wildcat and I reveled in it as I took my usual evening walk through the hallway to ensure that all the guards were positioned at their respective posts before nightfall.Every hallway I walked through immediately went dead silent the minute that the guards and maids noticed my presence, it was so silent that I could hear a hair of hay if it dropped to the floor, and they were all bowing so lowly in fear of me that I thought they’d sink into the ground head first if they went any lower.However, much to my amusement, there was a certain hallway that wasn't as silent as the others because my wolf had picked up very faint female moaning sounds the second I began to walk through it.Sincerely, I didn't give a shit how my servants pleased themselves, but for some reason, these particular moaning sounds called to me and I has every intention to trace the very root of it. With a glint of mischief shining in my eyes, I traced the sounds
CORAFor the longest time after that thoughtless monster Kai had exited the room, all I did was curse at myself for letting him catch me in a somewhat vulnerable state that allowed him to belittle me and call me all sorts of names that weren’t fit for a woman of my caliber.As I dwelt on the foolish decision I’d made to help myself and the unbecoming consequences, I absentmindedly shut my thighs. That might’ve easily passed as one of the stupidest things I’d ever done.“Fucking hell!” I immediately threw my thighs apart as a million tiny stings of pain shot through my body from the friction that was created when my sore spots clashed momentarily.You know what? Right now, I blamed my needlessly horny wolf for putting me in this absolutely shitty situation. Despite being the reason I’d agreed to a compromise and went ahead to touch myself, she’s taken it a notch higher by deriving pleasure from how Kai’s eyes had been trained on my core for a while as he whipped me mercilessly.And she
KAIFrom the second we’d had our first encounter, I knew that it’d become my self-ordained purpose to break Cora until there was nothing left of her. I’d vowed to make her fall to her knees and begin the same withered and humiliating voice as her father had— or worse, I’d enjoy it much more if it were worse.And so far, I’ve been having a swell time working toward that goal.However, for the past two days, while Cora was on her hunger strike, things seemed oddly unappealing and uneventful as they’d usually been. She still had an angry face each time I dragged her out to accompany Leila and me during our meals, but she wasn’t as mouthy as usual and she barely reacted to any of the insults of crumbs of food that were hauled at her.It might make me seem psychotic, but her compliance bothered and irked me rather than consoling me that she was being passively respectful or some shit.What I genuinely craved was the burning spark of anger and competitiveness that she ignited in me each tim
CORAThe two days of a hunger strike that I’d been punished with seemed to have gone by very quickly for me unlike the last where the days dragged out painfully. After my first experience, I’d grown a much tougher skin to being starved and dehydrated.Still, my appearance betrayed me and my skin paled terribly while my lips cracked and got scarred from the constant tears.Despite my resilience, the toughest parts of both days were the moments when I’d been dragged through the hallways just to kneel and watch Kai and Leila enjoy various delicacies that’d made my throat dry from how much I’d salivated.However, after the second meal, I quickly found a trick where I’d completely zone out of their conversations such that I wouldn’t have to be infuriated by their crude remarks toward me. I simply tuned into the memories of my family and loved ones that’d kept me going, and after repeating that at other meals, I realized that I’d found a happy place and an escape despite all the chaos.It’d
CORAI heard a series of wicked pounding in my dream, and I shut my eyes when tighter to make it go away. It stopped for a while and I relaxed a bit, but after a few minutes, I heard the pounding again and this time it felt like it was happening right inside my damn skull.That minute I realized that I’d rather be awake than stuck in such a horrible dream, so my eyes flew open, and I immediately met with the same deafening pounding that made me realize that it’d been happening in reality.As someone who’d never been a morning person, it felt like I was stuck in hell if I was being awoken to such a horrific around when the sun hadn't even risen. Someone had better call the devil and ask him to shut down hell because Kai’s palace had definitely stolen the title from him at this point.The pounding on the door came again and I groaned out in annoyance and kicked my feet against the bed before I got off of it grudgingly.“god, enough. I'm coming!” I called out as I stomped angrily toward
Cora’s POVFor about a week, I’d been slaving away as the only one on hallway duty and it wore me out every damn day. It was also the longest time I’d gone without seeing Kai but my hatred for him hadn’t waned one bit since I knew that he was responsible for my predicament where I was working as a maid and being bossed around by the matron that acted like an evil stepmother.The matron in question was also quickly making her way up the list of people I planned to murder viciously with my bare hands since she never failed to pound my door maniacally every day at exactly 5 am. What was much worse was how she rudely ordered me to mop a hallway all per again if my work wasn't satisfactory to her.Luckily for me, this morning I’d jolted awake without any pounding on my door about fifteen minutes to 5 am, and I hurriedly washed up and changed into my maid outfit. I then hurriedly ran toward the door and immediately I opened it I found the matron right outside my door and her hand had paused
Kai’s POVAs I walked away from Cora, I felt her eyes piercing into my back angrily after I’d spilled the contents of her mop bucket and it brought a huge smile to my face. It was also very refreshing to confirm that the look of hatred and pure unadulterated anger in her eyes whenever she looked at me hadn't waned one bit.Of course, I couldn't help but give myself a pat on the back for my success in preserving that look by assigning her the task of mopping the hallways very early in the morning.Still smiling, I finally arrived at my chambers and walked right into the shower to wash off the sweat that’d dried up after my training session. While I hummed and dried my body clean after getting our of the shower, an idea suddenly sparked in my memory and I knew I had to implement it quickly.So, immediately after I dressed up, I walked out of my chambers and scanned the area for a guard.“You! Come here!” I called out immediately I found one and he immediately ran in my direction making
Cora’s POVI grudgingly cleaned up the horrible mess that Kai had made of my hard work by spilling dirty water and by the time I was finished I was so hungry and drained that my stomach was growling so loudly that I was sure it was echoing through the hallways.Quickly, I packed up my cleaning equipment and headed toward the kitchen to grab my breakfast before they ran out of servings. As I entered the kitchen, I thanked my stars that there were still bowls of food left and I grabbed one hastily and made my way toward the door.However, I halted my footsteps when I felt someone’s eyes on me, and I immediately turned around to find who the culprit was.Her again?! I grumbled inwardly.The same maid that had been staring at me awkwardly like a stalker on my first day walking in the hallways was crouched in a corner staring back at me with wide, questioning eyes. And if course, like the last time it pissed me off and I decided to get to the bottom of it once and for all so it wouldn't re