Chapter 28: Who marked you

"Who did this?" His voice was deep and so rough, she could barely make out the words.

"I...I don't understand." Was he showing his true colors at last? The sense of betrayal grew and settled low in her stomach until she felt ill. She'd thought him a being of reason.

He shook her slightly. "Who did this to you?" He enunciated each word clearly, but his voice was so rough and gravelly, she had to strain to understand him.

"Did what?"

"Left marks on your back." Again, those lips pulled back from those savage incisors, his gaze still that frightening red, like something out of her nightmares. "Someone whipped you." It was not a question. "Someone dared whip my breeder."