Chapter 17: Wrapped Around Your Finger

Cyran POV

In Crimsontail territory, in a remote canyon where few shifters ever ventured, lances of energy stabbed his four limbs as Cyran struggled to stay on all four feet.

Hades Ombra’s commanding voice held him upright somehow. “Endure your punishment. Remain standing. If you falter, I will stop your heart by snapping my fingers.”

A hundred bolts of lightning pierced his limbs and his entire body. Dozens of pinpricks of heat tormented him. He burned everywhere, with no relief in sight. His master commanded it, so he would endure the pain. So much pain. Pure agony. Yet he felt flickers of pleasure, too, because his master touched him with his power. He was the luckiest shifter in the world …

But still, he whined and panted, and part of him wanted to bite Hades Ombra full of holes for punishing him so harshly. He trembled all over and kept his feet planted. He could stand strong. He could endure.