Chapter 28
She pants against the heat of the sun. Her eyes are closed and she can feel the sweat gathering on her brow when a shadow falls on her.
Sakura opens her eyes to find him standing there, his mouth stuck in a scowl, his eyes alight with familiar fury.
“Come with me.” He commands her, his tone imperious.
She wants to snarl and spit and fight but she hesitates. Now is not the time to pitch another fit, not when she is sure he is ready to strip the bones from her body, the skin from her muscles.
His eyes are widened and she can see the whites around those green eyes.
Still, she has spent too much time raging against the bitterness and rage inside her that she does not trust the easy words that escape his lips.
She juts out her chin. Her eyes flash.
Assert dominance, they had told her.
Well, she snarled in her mind, you’re getting what you fucking want.
“Why?”
His eyes narrow. “Father wants to talk to you.”
You are mine now, is what he does not tell her.