The belt came down on her ass like a thunderclap of pure savagery—hard enough to make the soft flesh bounce and jiggle under the brutal impact, hard enough to split the skin wide open through the thin silk of her robe. Roxanne felt the sickening tear, then the immediate hot trickle of blood sliding down the curves of her body in thick, humiliating rivulets that soaked into the carpet beneath her.
Not when the revelation of his true family background—Tiamat with all the monstrous weight that name carried—had already shattered every illusion of control they once held. She thought, still clinging to hopes of Phei protecting Sierra.
This was why Jonathan was scared of doing anything against Phei
She smiled again!
"Mocking me, again?" Jonathan roared, driving his foot into her lower back again and again, hammering the exact same spot with vicious precision, stacking layer after layer of crushing damage deep into her kidneys.
