VALORIA WILDEROSE
Ivana stares back at me, wide-eyed, before bursting into mocking laughter. She lets me go just to hold onto her aching belly.
My face slams into the floor in the process while she laughs to her fill, mocking me.
I feel the burn of her mockery deeper than anything else, but I fight through it, crawling away while she's distracted.
But I don't get too far before she notices.
"Where do you think you're going?" She grabs me by my legs, pulling me back and turning me around to face her again. "I have never seen anything so ugly before. Too bad His Majesty can't see it for himself."
She drives her foot into my gut—twice—before taking the time to breathe.
"Beg me, Valoria… beg me, and maybe I will let all of this go and pretend you didn't refuse my offer." She presses down, choking me with her foot.
I wheeze and cough, trembling in fear and holding back from pissing myself.
"Beg me and all of this will end."
