#Chapter 48 Mind Games

Aurora I’m still bound by my wrists and my ankles, tied with ropes that have begun to shave blisters into my skin while I struggle to break myself free. Xander has grown tired of my attempts to rejection him. He’s added a tight fabric tie over my mouth, keeping me from even being able to mumble my rejection of this false Alpha. He torments me at all hours of the night. I’ve gotten to at least skip my chores but I wouldn’t mind them now, tied up alone on my cellar cot, fighting my ropes while Xander is elsewhere, still prying through my mind and bringing me back to memories I wish I could I forget. He enjoys when I had slapped Jaxson during my first day at the palace. He watches the anger fuel his brother but somehow still be so restrained on retaliating. I only know now that Jaxson had every right, and then some, to hit me back. I am more shocked that he hadn’t hurt me at all. Xander then flicks to the moment James grabbed me in the palace hallway, holding me down with eve