Months had passed since alpha Hunter had purchased me at that dreaded auction, and the torment had only grown worse with each passing day. I couldn’t help but regret the day I’d ever wished to be sold, desperate for freedom from my previous life. Now, all I yearned for was salvation from the clutches of Hunter. It had been precisely three months since he brought me under his roof, and two months since he’d begun to have s*x with me the way he liked, claiming me as his own. My days blurred together in a nightmare of maltreatment. His once-charming demeanor had faded off, replaced by a cruel and possessive man who seemed to revel in my misery. This desperate evening, as I sat in the room that had over time become my prison, I folded my hands in a prayer to the moon goddess “Oh, moon goodne

