Can be read as a stand alone, but if you’d like to read in up to this point… Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. – “W-wait.” Bella’s voice trembled, but not from fear, not of him at least. The feel of him pressed against her was so good. It awakened something in her …
No one wanted her. When she’d been taken to auction, they told her her price would help her family. Some of her fear had melted away as thoughts of porridge warming her baby brother’s stomach filled her head. She’d held that thought through the humiliation of it all. They’d paraded her naked before too many …