Belle merely allowed him to pull her along as his words rang in her head. He did not care whether she liked or disliked him, which meant he would do whatever he pleased without caring whether it broke her heart or hurt her...
He was going to punish her. She realized, but unlike the other days where she wondered if he would punish her in bed and introduce her to a new thing about intimacy, that thought did not come to her mind now as she couldn't help but find it so hard to believe her heart was slowly getting attached to a heartless man who did not care about her own feelings.
If he did not care and could not love, why was he keeping her and so overly obsessed with wanting her not to think of another who probably loved her enough to risk his life coming into a dangerous land such as this?
