Chapter 41

Drax carries me into the full dining room and sets me down in a chair, warning me with a single look that I better behave or their will be consequences. I sit their silently, everyone's eyes on me. Their was only one other female in the room, her head cast down as mine should be, her eyes wide with fear. 

I hated what they did to us, how they treated us like we were possessions and not people with feelings, but I couldn't do anything about it. Not now. I was just as much a prisoner as she was, bound to Drax by his mark. I had no choice either. 

I waited silently until Drax took his seat, putting food on both of our plates. This was a test and I knew it, he was going to see if I would obey him, if I kept to my word. I didn't have any kind of appetite, but when he nodded at me I began to eat slowly, not saying a single word. 

Drax turns away from me, satisfied that I am doing as I am told. "You may all begin." He said,