Chapter 28

"Enter," Rikash stood, his expression resuming its normal hardness, and he turned to face the door. Amelia stood partially behind him, sliding looks at the door under her eyelashes cautiously. The green-eyed man entered but he did not look at her, his attention on Rikash and his eyebrows raising. The blonde-haired woman from the garden entered and behind her shuffled three near-naked men, shivering and blue-lipped from the cold outside. Rikash said something sneering, and Amelia thought from the blue and green that flooded their bond, that he was displeased by the state of the men. The woman laughed, disdainfully, and when she stepped to the side, Amelia saw the reason that the men shuffled when they moved, the motion reminding her of the slave market and the chain of women. The men did not wear collars around their necks, but each bore a piercing through their foreskins, and a chain ran between each man s legs attaching him to the one behind. If one fell, sh