Cora’s POVI knew that serving Leila for a day would be hell but I had no idea that it’d be a number of degrees hotter than hell itself.“Scrub it again” Leila ordered me to scrub a flimsy glass statue of hers again for what felt like the hundredth time.I huffed angrily and bent over to scrub it again, she’d explained earlier that she wanted it to glisten until it was blinding and she could see her reflection through it. However, we both knew that it was impossible and she was simply trying to push me over the edge, but I’d already been punished enough by Kai to last me a while so I decided to keep my anger under wraps.When I was done scrubbing the sculpture, I held it up toward her so she could check if her reflection was visible.“Eww, what's this spot?” She scrunched her nose in disgust and glared at me while I searched for the invisible spot she was referring to.“Again!” She rolled her eyes and pushed it back towards me and I genuinely wished that her eyes would get stuck in th

Cora’s POVA hand pushed my shoulder violently in my sleep and I woke up with an angry scowl on my face while I tried to make sense of why I was being woken up so early.“Wear this and meet me at the palace gates in ten minutes, we have a long journey ahead of us” Kai spoke in an emotionless tone and threw a black outfit at me before walking out of the room.The moment he left, I pushed my head into my pillow and screamed into it, a voiceless scream, the type that hangs in your throat from how utterly frustrated you're feeling, the type that's meant to be soothing but only gets your blood boiling faster. I picked up the outfit he'd dropped and it appeared to be a sort of gear fit, it had a bunch of buckles on the sides and the pants were tightly fitted, and when I got off my bed I noticed that he’d also left a pair of knee high boots for me to wear and it made me seriously wonder where he planned to take me and what horrible things lay ahead.Sluggishly, I pulled on the outfit and th

Leila’s POVMy spell hadn't worked on Cora.I’d chanted the call of a puppeteer to the puppet under his/her command and she wasn’t affected by it in the slightest way. I’d used the most potent spell in the books and I even had a piece of her essence and mine in the mix, so it greatly bothered me that it had proven to be ineffective.My chant was intended to make her kneel at my feet against her will and do as I’d wished but she was completely unaffected, the only thing I’d seen her do was rub her neck and twitch it like something was wrong, but nothing other than that.Hundreds of whores had contended against me for Kai’s attention but none of them had been as daring and bold as Cora to hit me and push my buttons so easily, because of that I didn't care about why my potions didn't affect her, I just knew that I needed a stronger control spell.With determination coursing through my veins, I stepped out of my bathtub with the milk I’d bathed in dripping down my legs and as I walked out

Kai’s POVMy hands were skimming lazily over the burnt edges of an old book when I heard a knock on the door.“Who’s there?” I called out in a bored yet authoritative tone.“Levi, sir” His familiar voice rang through the door and I slammed the book before me shut knowing that he’d come with work files.“Come in,” I adjusted in my seat, slumping further down instead of sitting up as working would require.Levi walked in with brisk steps and bowed subtly as he reached me as a salutation and I nodded toward the chair at the opposite end of the table for him to sit in. He had just sat down and stretched out his hands to open the file before him, there was another knock on the door and both out heads snapped toward it simultaneously.“Who is it?” I asked even though I’d picked up Leila’s scent from the first knock.“It's me, Leila” She answered promptly and waited to be called in.“Come in,” I said and she pushed the door open immediately and made her way towards us with an unusually high

Cora’s POVMy ears had to be hurting, he couldn't have implied what I thought he was, there was no fucking way I’d heard right. What happened at the ball could never repeat itself, never.“I doubt I heard you right,” I shifted uncomfortably on the bed as I hoped to the heavens that I’d not heard right, that my ears were deceiving me and he would soon clarify things.“Oh, but you did” His tone was blank as he walked into that bathroom and my head began to feel woozy, and not because I was getting a dizzy spell, but because I was fighting off the memories of that humiliating yet sensual night.It was an abomination, to have been roughly fucked by the man who was my sworn enemy in front of a crowd and ended up enjoying it enough to get an orgasm. It’d taken me way too much time to push down the horrible guilt that ate me up afterwards, how would I even live through a repeat of that? No.“No!” I voiced it out this time and I took a bold tone knowing that Kai wouldn't take no for an answ