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Chapter 17
“No.” He growled, dragging me to my feet.
I yelped slightly, his grip tight on my left arm as he began dragging me down the hall; I could sense the fury in his mind, the thoughts that I was too disobedient and I shouldn’t talk back to a vampire. Especially not a vampire prince.
He growled again, throwing me over his shoulder, my stomach hitting his bone, making me queasy and sore. He thought I was walking too slow, he didn’t have time to mollycoddle me, he needed me to learn how to control my powers.
He needed me to be obedient and quiet. He couldn’t handle a disobedient witch, and he certainly didn’t want one under his command, he wanted me to be a good witch, one that would not question him. But I wasn’t sure I could do that; I wasn’t sure that I was docile enough to be what he wanted me to be, though I supposed that I didn’t really have a choice.
I could e
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