Mute with shock, Shanna just stared at the Zorn woman. Ovoly actually looked sympathetic now as she released the bed, inching to the side of it as she moved closer to Shanna, giving her a nod.

“You are bound to Hyvin for all purposes but the actual title and he will not be able to release his seed into your body to give you offspring. He has made it very clear that he wants none of us house helpers to touch him again for fear of making you never wish his touch again.” Ovoly’s features tightened with anger. “It is very selfish of you and I want you to revoke your demands of Hyvin to be in your bed alone.” Shanna grew angry instantly while she glared at the Zorn woman. “Excuse me?” Ovoly stopped feet from Shanna on the side of the bed. “We must respect you but he can’t order us to like you or be nice to you if you make our lives unhappy. You are a little female and you had better remember that there are six of us. We want to continue to share a bed with Hyvin and we want access to his body as well. We feel sorry for you being taken by force from your world but we will not suffer your strange ways of a male and female relationship. It is selfish and cruel to all of us house helpers to not have Hyvin’s touch anymore just because it makes you angry. When Hyvin returns from his meetings you will tell him that he is to continue to sleep in our bed and mount each of us every day like he did before you came. Do you understand, human?” Shanna understood all right. “Are you threatening me, Ovoly?” Ovoly blinked a few times. “I would never threaten the house lead, human.” Her mouth tensed. “It is a warning.”

The bitch is definitely threatening me, Shanna thought, glaring at the woman. Worse, she was tied to the damn bed so if the Zorn attacked she wouldn’t be able to defend herself much. Ovoly was over six feet of muscled woman who probably weighed close to two hundred pounds with her beefy body and thick bones.

“Shall I feed you? I was ordered to offer you nourishment.” Shaking her head, Shanna refused. The other woman might poison her for all she knew or feed her something horrible. No way did she trust any of Berrr’s house helpers now that Ovoly had made it damn clear none of them were happy to have a human in their lives.

Ovoly smiled coldly. “We understand each other, don’t we, human? Hyvin is gone often and you will be here with us at times for days and days when he travels far distances on Zorn.” Her look swept down Shanna’s body. “Do you know that there are many ways to inflict pain without leaving marks on even death-white skin such as yours?”

“I get it.” Shanna inched away as far as she could with her wrists tied. “You can stop now that you’ve made your damn point. There’s no escape and if I don’t get with the program—yours—you’re going to make me suffer a hell of a lot for it.”

“I don’t know some of your words but yes, we will make you suffer greatly if you don’t tell Hyvin to keep things the way they were before you came and not feeding you, locking you in small spaces in the dark while Hyvin is gone will leave no marks on your body for him to see. It would be a pity if you told him anything and your hair caught fire by getting too close to the flame or you had an accident preparing a meal. Your fingers are so tiny that a knife would slice one off too easily but you look smart, human, so you have nothing to tell Hyvin about me or the other house helpers that would make him unhappy, do you?”

Dread pitted in her stomach as Shanna stared into the woman’s cold eyes. All signs of her earlier compassion were gone, leaving Shanna to wonder if it had all been an act in the first place as she shook her head no.

Ovoly smiled coldly and then turned, stalking across the room with a definite bounce in her step. Tears filled Shanna’s eyes the second the door closed and she was once again left alone. It was as if she were in foster care all over again when she’d first been sent into the system.

The older, bigger kids had terrorized her and made threats about what would happen if she tattled to anyone. Luckily she’d gotten bigger and taken all those classes to learn self-defense so she’d learned to fight back. She was facing six bullies now with a gang mentality and Shanna wasn’t going to get any bigger compared to those Amazon women. She was in a world of shit with no escape.

Hot wetness slid down her cheeks as more tears fell. She just wanted to go home but even if she managed to escape the house there would be no place to go where Berrr wouldn’t find her and no way to leave the planet Berrr ruled to go home to Earth.

Shanna drew up her knees and huddled, putting her face against her legs, and just let go of her emotions. She never was one to turn to useless tears but sometimes a good cry was the best way to get it out of her system. She used her knees to muffle her sobs when they gripped her. Her future was going to be a living hell and she knew it. She’d spent years of her life trying to survive her childhood so she could control her own future and now it all had been taken away from her.

A while later a hand touching her startled Shanna enough to make her gasp. Her face jerked up, to stare in fear into a pair of sad, glowing bright blue eyes as Berrr watched her silently. He was leaning over the edge of the bed, his face close to hers, his large hand touching her calf. His mouth was slightly parted to reveal his sharp teeth and as Shanna stared at him, he brought a knee up high, making the bed dip as he climbed on it with her.

“Please, Shanna, do not shed tears.” His voice was deep but his tone was soft, gentle and comforting. “I am sorry I was later than I said I would be but I wanted to talk to my son Argernon and his human bound so I visited them after my meetings.” Shanna forced herself to look away and lower her head. She used the baggy dress to wipe at her tears, sniffed a little and was embarrassed that he’d caught her crying. The bed moved more as Berrr settled down next to her to sit with his back to the headboard.

She saw his other hand move for his thigh and she watched silently as he withdrew something from a pocket of his tight leather pants. She saw the sharp blade a second before he sliced through the belts that held her wrists. He threw the knife away, the sound loud as it clattered across the tile.

Shanna gasped but didn’t fight when Berrr suddenly lifted her, putting her sideways on his lap so her ass firmly was between his slightly parted thighs. Two thick, muscular arms wrapped tight around her to pull her firmly against his chest. He hugged her to his body, his chin coming down on the top of her head while he held her.