A devil. That’s what the help called him. He was bought by the royal family to be trained and become a soldier. But his unpredictable violence prevented him from being trained. You’d been given to him to be his mate, hoping you’d calm him down. It didn’t work.

You were both sat in your shared room, and he was waiting for the guards to come deliver his punishment for getting into trouble again. He didn’t care about the punishments, so they’d decided to switch it up and punish you instead.