'What plans do you have for us?' Iris asked Adrian.This was coming a month after their wedding. Four weeks of sexual abuse. She had tried to initiate the mating, touching him on the shoulder once.

'What do you think you are doing?' he asked flinging away her hand. 'If you touch me again without my permission, then you shall live to regret it!' he threatened.

'But I am your wife and mate', she tried to reason with him gently. 'I have a right to your body as you have to mine!'

'You have no ...