Bastian

“Bastian, Bastian, Bastian. Why don’t you just give in? Then all of this will go away.”

I grit my teeth at the celestial being in front of me.

I don’t remember how I got here; all I know is that I woke with my hands shoulder-width apart and suspended in mid-air.

I’m shirtless and barefoot. I’m sweating from being whipped so many damn times by Lian’s goons.

For one so beautiful with those wings like fire, she sure is a sadistic bitch!

I know nothing of Phoenix shifter’s and their port of worship. Hell, I’d never even heard of Lian until Krone spoke of her. Yet, here she is in front of me, swearing that I pledged to give myself to her in exchange for Krone and Shayla’s freedom.

I did no such thing!

I swore that I wouldn’t go looking for my sister. I did not agree to be this whore’s sex slave!

That’s what Lian wants from me, to hand myself over to her, b