Chapter 31

**KAELIA**

I watched Bas as he stepped toward the door to leave, panting against the wall as my mind scrambled to come up with a way to soothe him. Maybe if I did something to make it up to him. Or, behaved like the robotic slave that he wanted me to be for the rest of the day, he would reconsider my... punishment. Without knowing exactly what it was he had planned for me, I wasn't even sure if I