SOPHIA

My heart hammered so loudly I was sure he could hear it through the wall. Others. The word echoed in my skull like a gunshot. I stood frozen just outside the door, still naked except for the heavy leather collar locked around my throat, his dried cum still sticky between my thighs from earlier.

Cain’s voice continued, low and clinical. “No, this one’s different. Smarter. More resistant. But she’ll break just like the rest. By the end of the semester, she’ll be begging to drop out and serve me full-time. The leverage is ironclad.”

I backed away slowly, but my foot creaked on the old wooden floor.

The call...