Chapter 9

• Ever since her talk with Kai, Kaia had struggled to settle in as his wife and follow his orders to the fullest. He’d told her to stay the hell away from him—and she did just that. She fulfilled her duties as a wife to him, but somehow, he never seemed pleased with anything she did.
• He always complained, insulted, and belittled her. Kaia was getting dangerously close to exploding and finally telling him exactly what was on her mind.
• Over the past few weeks, Kaia had received several calls from her former work colleagues, asking if she was okay and wondering why she hadn’t shown up to work. At first, their concern warmed her heart. But then she remembered how not a single one of them had come to her aid the day she bumped into Kai—how he had dragged her to the station and forced her to sign the agreement that had sealed her fate.