Chapter 16

**Scarlett's POV**

“Pleasure you until dawn?” I exclaimed. “For goodness’ sake I was just discharged from the hospital, my vagina is sore, my butt hurts like hell, I'm aching all over, and what did you say? Pleasure you until dawn? Do you want to kill me?” I blurted out in frustration. As soon as I realized what I'd said, I covered my mouth.

“You need to put a leash on that tongue of yours whenever you're with me,” He got down from the bed and grabbed my neck, lifting me off from the ground. “Mind the way you speak to me because I might just kill you and nobody, absolutely nobody, would do anything about it.”

I held his hand as he tightened his hold on my neck. Looking into his eyes, I didn't see anger, but I saw pain and frustration; something like he had no choice but to do what he was doing to me.

“I… I… I'm… sorry,” were the only words that managed to come out of my mouth as he choked me.

He let go of me, making me hit my already aching butt on the floor. I winced in pain and