Lavish Corruption: A Dark Secret Society Romance (Breaking Belles) by Alta Hensley & Stasia Black

Author:Alta Hensley & Stasia Black [Hensley, Alta & Black, Stasia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

It was twisted, them giving us that box at breakfast. Because then there was nothing to do all day except think about what might be coming later. I didn’t think I was going to appreciate all the clever ways they had come up with over the years to “break” me.

Because the more hours I had to stare at those damn shackles, the more I felt eminently breakable.

Most belles had to survive over three months of this? One hundred and nine days? All I had was a three-week sentence and I was near to hyperventilating.

Walker could see I was anxious, but that didn’t make him helpful.

Thirty minutes before we were supposed to go down, I was still wearing my leggings and soft shirt, and he dropped the news: “Uh. What they put in the box is what they want you to wear. And it’s, um, the only thing they want you wearing.”

My mouth dropped open. I was supposed to walk down there in front of all those men I’d grown up with completely buck naked?

Of course that was what they wanted, my brain registered at the same time I started shaking.

Walker came up to me. “You don’t have to do this. We can go down there right now, tell them to go fuck themselves, and walk right out the front door.”

Not this again. I pushed my hands against his chest and shoved him away from me. “That’s not helpful! You know we have to do this.”

I glared at him, and he ran his hands through his hair. He turned away from me, pacing back and forth in the bedroom. Which is what he did for the next thirty minutes until it was time to go downstairs, not speaking a word.

Which was fine because I was pretty sure all he’d do was try to talk me out of it again. He was too gallant. Too much of a man who wanted to ride in to the rescue.

And I was pretty sure that having to do CPR on me to bring me back from the brink of death had freaked him out even more than it had me, if that was even possible.

So I was gonna have to be the strong one here. At least insofar as getting us down those damn stairs. Because I was pretty damn sure I’d need his strength to face whatever was awaiting us once we got there.

“Hey,” I said. “Hey.” I walked over to him and grabbed his face with both of my hands, forcing him to look me in the eye. “I need you, okay? I’m gonna need you to get me through this. Will you help me?”

“Of course,” he said right away. “Always.” He reached out in return to hold my upper arms. “I’ve got you. I won’t let them hurt you.”

I nodded and breathed out. And then I quickly got undressed and allowed him to clink the heavy shackles shut on my wrists, behind my back.

And then we walked down the hallway and down the stairs.

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