~VALENTINA MONROE~

After deciding the tattoo's placement as though my body were nothing more than a canvas he owned, Kael disappeared.

Thankfully, Maeve brought me down from the chains and had me taken to a room. A proper room where I got to lie down as she tattooed me.

It hurt less than I had expected. Perhaps because of the stress and pain I'd been through. Maeve worked in silence, not speaking a word to me. And neither did I. My mind was troubled by far greater things. Like the fact that I had literally just signed my life away to Kael. I agreed to work for him to pay...