Meadow’s POV:

I failed.

I failed the fucking test. And now Alaric wasn’t going to give me what I wanted.

But I couldn’t help it. The onslaught of emotions and the pleasure and the pain just… it was too much. And so I gave in. The worst part about this was knowing that this was only a glimpse of what Alaric could and would do to me if I had passed.

And I couldn’t take it.

My throat tightened as Alaric uncuffed the spreader bar from my ankles. I was breathing hard, trying to ...