"You belong to me," Alden said.

The man's face hardened, his gaze full of power as he looked at Hannah.

"Why do you speak to me this way? Do you feel that your dignity must be respected? You have nothing, and only I have the right to say anything about you," Alden continued.

Hannah swallowed her saliva.

What Alden said hit Hannah hard. But as if fingers snapped in Hannah's head, she realized that she had once said that her life was in Alden's hands. Even slaves in the ...