All Chapters of The Tamed and Broken: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

My stomach was in knots, and my throat tasted of blood. I gulped back the blood in my mouth before pulling a lowly smile at Dylan. “Got it, sir.” Dylan’s eyes widened. His mind was probably stuck on the old me when I was obnoxious and hot-tempered. The moment I discovered that Dylan had been bleeding my family’s assets dry, I flipped the table, ready to fight him to the end. One step ahead of me, Dylan teamed up with outsiders to set my parents up and bury them in debt. The humiliation was too much for my parents to bear, and they stepped off the ledge. The funeral was barely over when Dylan showed up with Tammy at my home to take over everything. As blood rushed to my head, I confronted them with the determination to end everything, even at the cost of my life. Before I could even get close to Dylan, his security detail pinned me down. It took one supposed psychiatric evaluation, and Dylan had justification to exile me to a desert island in the middle of the open s

I regained consciousness on the hospital bed, the smell of dried blood heavy in my nose. Dylan stayed by my side, and it showed in the bags under his eyes and his untamed hair. He hadn’t slept a wink. The moment I woke up, he embraced me with joy, but I pushed him away. He was taken aback. “Sarah, did I hurt you?” I shook my head and scrambled out of bed to kneel before him. “I’m sorry, sir. I wasted your time and energy. “Please take me back to the manor. Ms. Bates needs a sparring partner, and Dobie can’t go without my care.” Dylan stepped back, his eyes boring into my robotic smile. He reached out to hold me, but I flinched, pulling my hands over my head in defense. Dylan stared at me in surprise, his voice raspy. “Sarah, w-what happened to you?” I hung my head low in silence. The steady beeping of the medical equipment rang through the ward. The shrill noise of a ringing phone broke the silence, and Tammy’s voice boomed through the speaker. “Dylan, Dobie

With Tammy’s questioning getting on Dylan’s nerves, the emotions he had been fighting to keep at bay burst open. “What’s with your constant paranoia? Aside from you and Sarah, who else do I have in my life?” Tammy sneered, her gaze sharp. “Oh, quit the act. Didn’t you take Sarah out today?” Dylan’s heart skipped a beat. “Take Sarah out? What are you talking about?” Tammy folded her arms. “Sarah is well-trained now. She won’t defy you and leave the house without your permission.” “She’s been missing all day. Where could she possibly be if you didn’t take her out?” Looking as if he had been sucker-punched, Dylan stumbled into the domestic quarters. He pushed the door open, and it was empty inside. Refusing to believe reality, Dylan walked into the quarters, only for a foul stench to hit him right in the nostrils.The filthy floor was stained with dark, dried blood, and the walls were lined with deep scratch marks, as if someone had unleashed their agony there. Dy

Hot tears dripped across the skin of my neck. “I was worried about you, Sarah. I feared you might do something drastic. Please come back with me. “I made a mistake. It has always been you. You’re the one I love. I shouldn’t have done what I did to you. I’ve been losing my mind during the time you were gone.“I don’t want Tammy, the money, or the power. I just want you…” Dylan cried shakily like a child in my arms, just as he had years ago. Raising my arm, I took Dylan’s hand by force and pressed it against the longest scar across my shoulder. “Do you know that every single scar I carry is related to you? You sure have some nerve to say that to me.” Pale in the face, he tried to recoil his arm. However, I was dead set on tracing his fingers along every crater on my flesh. There were a handful of times I barely survived the extreme conditions, the wild beasts, and Tammy’s schemes in my five years on the remote island. Dylan would get in touch with me once every three m