Of Human Bondage Goodreads Novels & Stories

James on the other hand was unusually quiet and brooding over his third glass tonight, detached away from himself. “What is happening to us?”, Nathan questioned, stretching his arms with multiple lines of frustration running across his face. “Just when I thought I didn't matter to them and I'm happy, he just ties me to that slut?”, he ranted, yelling above the loud music blaring around us. Too occupied in my own emptiness to offer any real response, I simply nodded in understanding, acknowledging his frustrations even more clearer as I was in the same position. How convenient for my late father who never even had a glimpse of me from the time of my birth to seal my future with a devil in hum

He naps his powerful jaws into another man’s arm, coating his muzzle with blood. “What’s so good about a mate, anyway?” The blonde man asks, dodging and jumping behind some of his men and weaving through the group, always staying just out of reach. “The mating bond is such a hassle. It’s the highest and most ridiculous form of slavery that the Goddess has saddled us with.” The wolf snarls at the blonde man again. “Do you hear that?” My kidnapper whispers. I ignore him, straining to hear the blonde man as he begins speaking again.

Jennifer POV I think I passed out, I come to my senses and the first thing I reach for was my panties, making sure nothing stupid happened, the rogues are always evil minded and what would come out of their mind when they had a female captive was sex, it seems I was lucky this time. My bra was almost on point, I guess the misalignment was from the beating Larry gave me but I think I’m fine. I’m all alone in this big room filled with dusty boxes, cobwebs in each and every corner, some rats could run each and every time at the room and the stink, it was so disgusting, they are so heartless, I try to move and that’s when I realize I was tied, what! My feet were tied with strong ropes to a huge

His sheets were black but were starting to go grey from being washed too many times. 'Maybe I should buy him some new ones,' she thought before inwardly scolding herself for being such a simp. She knew first-hand it was annoying to have someone simping over you. If he wanted a slave, she would stick to just following the orders... and maybe trying to make him like her as a person as opposed to a living set of fuck holes.

“Leave us. This is not your burden to carry.” When they had gone, when the doors had closed, and we were alone again, the man spoke to us. “The bond was never meant to be a trap,” he said. “It was meant to be a partnership. Equal. Shared. Mutual. But the people who built it were afraid. They did not believe two people could be trusted to carry such power together. That they would remain true. That they would share fairly. So they wrote the rule. One yields. One rules. Sacrifice as the price of power. And it became a weapon. A cage. A thing that broke hearts instead of bringing them together.”

I was so used to eating once or twice a day, and usually in small portions, so in my mind I had eaten enough to last me until the next day. The room door opened and I heard someone walk in, I assumed it was just another maid so I didn't bother looking up."You can leave it on the table next to the other. I promise I'll eat it in a few" I said, absent minded. These books were so unusual, talking about times as if humans were slaves to a more powerful creature. It was the history of a night creature that held the power of illusion. There only weakness, emotion.

My mouth hands open at the sight of the glimmering coins, I'm surprised that someone can be in possession of so much money. The man counts the coins and hands it over to the pudge slave trader. Oroi bows lowly as he receives the coins. Then, Oroi gives orders to the soldiers who freed us from our cages and are standing by. The soldiers grab the people the man points at and ties a rope round their necks. The rope is very long and ties all of them into a long chain. The people are whimpering and groaning, their legs are weak and are visibly trembling and shaking. There are nine tied up already, one left. I bow my head and stare at the ground, I don't want to be picked.

The ledger that had reduced lives to weights and numbers. I thought of Lila’s broken laugh, Master Binder’s cold eyes, the other captives whose names I didn’t know. “You’re not doing this for me,” I said. “No,” he said. “I’m doing it because I can’t stand the sight of what I was part of anymore. If I were a better man, that would have been true years ago. I’m not. I’m just…the one who finally woke up with your blood on his hands and realized it wasn’t going to wash off.”

"There is no strength in being ruthless just because your father demands it. Look at the brutal, merciless path this family is taking. You are destroying innocent people for corporate power. You are turning into monsters, Victor. All of you. You are losing your humanity." Victor scoffed bitterly, his upper lip curling into a cruel sneer. "We are wolves, Mother. We left our humanity behind a long time ago." "Then you are truly lost," she whispered, her voice dropping into a heartbroken tone. Then my mother turned her attention to the metal binding my wrists and ankles. She had to take the larger chain and start breaking it. She pulled with all her physical might, but it was impossible for her

On the day of my ascension, Yasmin, under the pretense of a celebratory toast, poisoned me. I watched her revel in her supposed victory, but I kept silent about one crucial fact: Wyverns are innately arrogant and hold humans in contempt. Sure, a mystic contract could bind a Wyvern to serve as a magical guardian, but it would do so begrudgingly. In my previous life, when the white Wyvern first hatched, I was ecstatic. However, joy turned to dismay as I realized it would not heed my commands. It wreaked havoc, each incident more catastrophic than the last, all to compel me to break our bond.