“I will never go to your house, why should I do as you say?"

The moment she repeated those words again, the air in the room grew heavy. Hunter grew impatient with her constant refusal disobedient. He was getting angry now. For a long moment, the silence was thick, broken only by her nervous breath.

“You,” he said in a low voice, almost amused, “are the only one who has ever dared to disobey me this much. Continuously. Over and over. Do you know what that makes you?”

She swallowed ...