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promise.”
    Sidney felt the need to bow her head and look away from his eyes, but she refused to give in. She would not show him weakness anymore.
    They stared each other down, each glaring at the other as the tension rose in the air.
    Suddenly after long moments, a knock sounded at the bedroom door making Sidney about jump out of her own skin. Josh didn’t respond to the knock. He just continued to glare at her.
    “Aren’t you going to see who that is?” she asked, looking over his arm toward the door.
    “No, I know who it is,” Josh answered. “It’s Tricia coming to tell us dinner is ready.”
    “Well, shouldn’t you answer her?” Sidney asked, frustrated.
    “She knows I know,” Josh responded. “She knows the rules here. She knows who her Alpha is and she knows how to obey.”
    Sidney glared at him again, but didn’t respond.
    “She’s already gone,” he continued. “We will go down to the dining room in a minute and have dinner. You will behave yourself and there will be no more outbursts like this one.”
    A string of insults lined up on Sidney’s tongue at his domineering attitude, but she kept her mouth closed and expressed her defiance with her eyes.
    “And, Sidney,” he went on, leaning against her and whispering in her ear. “I am going to punish you for this little argument. I’ve already got it planned out. So, don’t think you’ve gotten away with this.”
    With that, he pulled away, grabbing her elbow and pulling her along with him. “Come on,” he commanded. “We need to get ourselves cleaned up and get down to dinner.”
    He dragged her to the pile of clothes she had left on top of the dresser and dug through them, throwing a pair of jeans and a teal blue blouse at her.
    “I don’t know why you decided not to put your clothes away,” he grumbled. “But when we get back from dinner, you will put them all in drawers. Tricia is not here to be your maid/servant.”
    His accusation that she would treat Tricia as a maid pissed her off. She hadn’t put the clothes away because she didn’t think she was allowed and she wasn’t planning on staying.
    “No, she’s yours,” she responded. “And up until Richard, I’m sure she took care of other services for you, too.”
    Josh spun around and grabbed her at the last part of her comment.
    “Let’s get a few things straight,” he said grabbing her arms, painfully. “I will not tolerate your disrespect of my Pack. We are far superior to humans and deserve your respect. Second, I am Alpha here. No one, and I mean no one, gets away with talking to me the way you have—not even my mate. What relations I had with Tricia before she mated with Richard is between her and me. They are none of your concern. She is a good woman and doesn’t deserve your disrespect. So, if I hear another bad word from you about anyone in my Pack, I will not think anything of punishing you right in front of that person and then forcing you to apologize, whether they knew you said it or not. Do you understand?”
    Tears had begun streaming down her face at this point as she listened to him inform her of her place within his Pack. She now understood perfectly that she was just going to be used as some breeding tool for him and nothing else. Pictures of her living in servitude to the Pack as he kept her barefoot and pregnant flashed in her mind, and she trembled with the realization that this was what was going to be her life. She could see her own children mocking her and hating her for her inferiority, and Josh sleeping around on her with every eligible woman in the Pack, while she cleaned up after them.
    “I understand perfectly,” she said through her tears, as her body slumped in her final defeat. She knew now that she was trapped, and probably the only way she would ever escape was by death.
    He studied her for a few moments, and she turned her head so he couldn’t see the defeat in her eyes. Finally he let go of her, and stepped away.
    “Now, get