Chapter Four
Summoned.
The word coiled tight in my mind. I’d never get used to being summoned like we were less than a human. Less than anything but a pet, a slave at their beckoning... it was exactly the Sinfuls’ intention. They planned to suppress us, break us, and it burned me up with hatred. I’d planned this moment for years, practiced controlling my emotions, memorized the rules.
Never escape.
Never say no.
Never look ungrateful.
I was theirs and I’d better like it or they’d know. Didn’t matter that we were the payment to cover our family debt to the Sinful. None of that was important anymore. Just survival.
That brunette in the woods had run for her life... her terrified scream still rang in my ears. The devastation twisting her parents’ faces would haunt me for eternity. No o
