I only own Alara.

Epilogue

Alara stood at the dresser the next day, applying her makeup. Kane looked at her from the bed and smiled. She turned to him, her midnight blue gown swirling around her feet. She smiled at her new husband and began to wonder how Christian was doing.

"What's wrong?" Kane asked, pulling her to him.

"Nothing." She answered. "I'm just worrying about what Christian."

"Why?"
"I thought about his challenge to you."

"Don't worry about it." Kane told her, kissing her shoulders. "You need to relax."

She sighed and knew he was right. She began to relax at his touch and forgot about Christian. She was unaware of what Kane's plans were. He was going to decimate Christian for so much as challenging for the rights to his new wife.

How dare he? He, Lord Kane, was better than anyone on this plane and on his home plane. It was his right to take this beautiful princess and make her his as he had last night. Christian was a commoner and knew nothing about how to treat royalty. Christian never had a chance with her and he would make sure Christian never try to contact her again.

Alara was relaxing to his touch, thinking of how happy she was. She was home with her new husband and lord and she was happy. She decided that she would be fine with never going to a horrible arena again. She hated it there and would rather stay in the house and read. It was a privilege to have a lord choose her as a wife, but two lords? She was absolutely speechless. She glanced at the door and saw a servant bringing in wine.

"Get out!" Kane roared, but she touched him and he sighed.
"You do not need to be scared. Come bring us the wine." Alara answered. She looked at Lord Kane. "You need to be more accepting of the servants here, my lord."

"Alara, you need to accept that I will be always be your husband and you must submit to me or I will hurt you." Kane sneered.

"My lord, I do submit. But you do not need to terrorize every servant who brings us something." She answered, with some defiance.

"I expected you to be unruly, my lady. So I devised something for you." He snickered and held up a thin red collar attached to the bed. "This is for you and you will be my slave."

"But--"

"I did not neglect to tell you this, my dear."

In this she realized, that she was bound to this monster forever and it would never change, but somehow, she didn't mind so much anymore. She, in fact, wanted this more than anything else in the world.