Chapter 15


    The movement makes me cringe in pain as my ribs throb before clenching my teeth to stop from crying


    out. Quick movements always gave me sharp pains and caused my breathing to hitch.


    “Sorry, did that hurt?” He asks. I shake my head.


    “Don’t lie. Why do you lie about being in pain?” he asks while he starts to unravel the bandages. Unsure


    of whether to answer, I remained quiet. Dobber’s always got you in trouble.


    “I asked you a question?” he says, tapping the side of my leg and making me jump and blurt out an


    answer.


    “Mrs. Daley would double our punishments if we made noise,” I murmur, remembering the first time l


    cried out. I was eleven the first time she whipped me. Threeshes turned into six. After a few times, we


    learned quickly not to make a noise. It was always worse if we did.


    “Is that why you have so many scars?” he asks.


    “No, we learned to keep quiet. No matter how well we did our chores, Mrs. Daley would always find


    something to punish us for.”


    I grit my teeth as the pressure removes when the bandages go down to thestyer.


    “What happened to your ribs and back?” he asks, his fingers brushing my ribs, and I cringed before


    gritting my teeth, a stifled whimper leaving my lips as he presses on the worst one.


    “You don’t have to be quiet, Ivy. I won’t punish you for being in pain. You would have to do something


    pretty extreme for me to want to punish you,” he murmurs.


    “Can you lift your arms above your head?” he asks, and I try to lift both arms, the left pulling at my side


    making my arms tremble.


    “That’s enough; this side looks like you have broken it. How did you do that?” he asks.


    “Fell down the stairs, Sir,” I tell him.


    “When?”


    “The day we got here?”


    “You have been working for two days with broken ribs and didn’t say anything?”


    I choose to say nothing. “You should have said something, Ivy. You can’t be expected to work like this if


    you are in pain.”


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    “It’s fine; I can still work,”


    “No, you will stay in here with me, so I know you’re resting,”


    “That’s not necessary; I can still work.”


    “It wasn’t a choice. You remain with me,” King Kyson says before grabbing a jar of ointment and rubbing


    it on the cuts. I remained still while he cleaned the markings branding my skin, my face heating the


    longer he touched me. I felt d***y and embarrassed that he was touching me, his servant.


    Yet the feel of his skin on mine felt oddly warming, my skin tingling everywhere he touched. He moves


    behind me, the bed dipping more.


    “Stay there,” He says before climbing off the bed and walking over to his dresser. He grabs a ck shirt


    out of the drawer, then climbs back on the bed and retakes his ce behind me.


    “I think you should leave the bandage off; let it get some air,” He says before I feel his fingers pinch my


    bra, releasing the hooks. I shriek, covering myself before I feel his breath on my neck.


    “Shh, Ivy, I can’t see you,” he whispers, and I stiffen at his closeness, feeling the heat radiating off his


    chest and seeping into my back. His nose skims along my shoulder to the back of my ear, his hand on


    my stomach pulls me closer to him.


    “I love your scent,” He whispers, and tingles flood over me everywhere, and I s**k in a breath. He


    suddenly clears his throat, pulling his face away from me.


    “Sorry, I didn’t mean to… you just smell nice,” He says.


    “It’s fine, sir,” I tell him, a little startled that he admitted sniffing me and the fact he thought I smelt nice,


    most Rogues smell awful to pack wolves, yet again he was a Lycan, so who knows.


    “Kyson,” He murmurs.


    “Pardon, Sir,”


    “My name, it is Kyson, say it, lvy,” He says behind me. I shake my head at his words, looking toward the


    door.


    “Say my name Ivy; I won’t let anyone punish you for using my name,” he says before sliding my bra


    straps down my arms before cing it beside him and tugging a shirt over my head.


    His fingertips graze the sides of my b*****s, making me shiver. It was the ck shirt he got out of the


    dresser. I look down at it before sniffing it, his scent making my mouth water.


    “Do I smell nice?” He asks with a softugh.


    “Yes, like Vani and berries,” I told him before pping a hand over my mouth for what embarrassingly


    blurted out. Heughs softly, his fingers fiddling with my ponytail before he gently removes my hair tie.


    My hair falls to my waist, and he runs his fingers through it, I shiver at the feel of fingers on my scalp.


    “You still haven’t said it yet,” He says.


    “Said what?”


    “My name”, He says, and I shake my head.


    “I will get you to say it eventually” He almost seemed to be taunting, his tone yful.


    There is a knock on the door, and I go to get up when he pulls me back down, his hand moving under his


    shirt, his thumb rubbing my belly.


    “Come in, Damian,” He says, and my heart beats erratically. Beta Damian walks in with a tray of food and


    sses with ice cubes.


    “Where do you want it, Kyson?” He asks.


    “Just leave it there,” the King says behind me, and my face heats when King Kyson presses his face into


    my neck again. His Beta never looks in our direction like he expected me to be half undressed here and


    practically sitting on his King’sp. How many servants had he found in this position, I wondered. Surely,


    this wasn’t normal behavior, or maybe it was. Is this why Ester hates me?


    “Anything else?” Beta Damian asks him.


    “No, that is all. I will mind-link if I need anything,” The King says. I see his Beta nod before walking out


    and shutting the door.


    “Rx, Ivy,” the King tells me, but I find that near impossible when he could tell the guards to k**l me at


    any second, and they would without hesitation. He gets off the bed and retrieves the tray before pouring


    whiskey into a ss.


    “Have you drank before?” He asks, and I shake my head.


    He hands me the ss, and I sniff it. “I won’t tell if you don’t, but it will help with the pain,” He says,


    pointing to my ribs. I sip it and nearly spit it back in the ss, and heughs before pouring the ice from


    the other cup into my ss.


    “There, I watered it down a bit,” He says before pouring himself a ss. I sniff it again and shake my


    head, trying to pass it back to him, but he adds more whiskey to the ss, half filling it.


    “Drink it,” He orders, and I am unable to help myself. I bring the ss to my lips. He watches me over the


    rim of his ss, and I cough when I finish, drinking it all in one go.


    “Sorry, I don’t like ordering you, but I knew you wouldn’t drink it. You may feel woozy, but you shouldn’t


    hurt as bad” Woozy, I felt warm and, after a few minutes, rtively heavy.


    “Eat,” He says, cing the tray between us. The tray was filled with small sandwiches cut into triangles


    and carrots sticks and dips, along with an assortment of cheeses and different crackers.