Helen POV
“You missed a spot,” Scott purred, kissing my bare, bruised back as I hunched over to scrub the tile floors. He stepped over me like I’m a bug he would prefer to squish. “If you behave tonight, maybe I’ll let you sleep in bed with me.”
“Never,” I hissed, throwing the sopping wet sponge at his back.
He stopped walking away and turned with a raised brow. “Oh, so you want to keep being punished?”
“It’s better than being with you,” I barked. “You cannot keep me here forever, Scott. I will make it back to my mate.”
“I am your mate!”
“You will never be my mate again!”
I stood, fighting the chains on my wrists and my legs, hating how Scott treats me like my Lycan mate is being treated by his father. He wants to humiliate me into submission. It will never work.
“You want some per
