Raine's POV

I kept my exterior expression perfectly blank. The last thing Talon needed was to be exposed to my stunned reaction. But even though I was calm, cool, and collected on the outside, on the inside, I was screaming, 'WTF?"

A large apparatus took up one-half of the wall across from the bed. There were straps and restraints at various heights and combinations for the purpose of contorting a human body into any possible position. Several whips and chains hung along the wall. And was that a pulley system? Shit.

More disturbing than the medieval-looking contraption and punishment tools on the wall, was what was contained under it –...