Prologue
I scratched and clawed at his servants' hand while he stood impassively and laughed a mirthless laugh. I screamed curses at him in every language I knew for tricking me. I had trusted him with my secrets and yet he had told everyone. He ordered a female to remove my clothing and bind me in chains. I froze in fear but it was not because of the fact that I was embarrassed of my body. It was the fact that if he ever saw me laid bare to him I would be forever bound to him and obey his every command and he knew this. He knew that any unmated male could be bound to me if he ever saw me laid bare. To my relief he left the room and came back in once they had hung me in celestial light chains, chains which could only be broken by an unmated male blessed by Mother Artemis who was capable of seeing things that were hidden in plain sight. They were very few of them, the men Mother Artemis had blessed. I felt queasy knowing the fact that whoever rescued me would be bound for eternity with me once I was laid bare to him. He came uncomfortably close and I smelt his sickeningly sweet scent as he leaned over and whispered, "Goodbye Isabella-Aurora, Princess of Olympus."
I knew then that I would never leave this place... I knew then.