For His Pleasure

Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine

"Make a choice."

He walked around her in circles. Bella hated how he did that. She wasn't prey.

"Neither."Bella said as she crossed her arms. He had to be insane. It was wrong enough that she was stripped bare of her title. She couldn't go against him. Who would object to his treatment of her? She was in his domain. His bargaining and haggling wasn't fair. All of it was on his terms.

"You have no choice but to pick one. You have no power here. Be quick about it woman. Or I can place this back around Melissa's neck. " He held up her mothers necklace.He eyed it for a moment before placing it in a small chest.

Bella glanced at him. She didn't want it back around that vile woman's neck. Yet she wasn't willing to do what it took to gain it back.She didn't want to pick. Godric was being cruel. He was a true brute and deserved what ever bad thing came his way.

"How about you give me my necklace and let me be on my way,"Bella said as she smiled at him. He could just allow for her to leave. They would never have to see each other ever again. How lovely would that be? It could be done. Bella would make sure of it. It would be easy to see to it that their paths no longer crossed.

"Or you can just play along and make your choice. And then you can get your necklace back. Along with your freedom. I guarantee it."

Bella's face heated up with embarrassment and anger. Those choices were so unladylike. Bella gave up. He could keep the damned necklace. She wouldn't choose. She couldn't.

"Alright My lord I will not choose. All the choices you have given me require me to be ...."Bella couldn't finish. She hated what he was offering. She wanted to drive his own sword through his heart. "Why?"she spat at him.

"I want you to feel nothing more then degraded. Make you understand what it feels like to have your life in the hands of another. Being forever in the unknown. Having no control or say."

"Too late. And rather pointless. I already know what that feels like.As a woman or any woman knows that feeling. No control or say. Always under the rule of a man, whether he be father,husband,uncle,or brother."

"Good. Now feel it again. To my satisfaction my dear Bella,"Godric said as he tossed Bella's words from that day in the kitchen at her.

"I am afraid that ship has sailed. Also I wasn't myself that day. How about to my satisfaction?"

"How badly do you want your freedom?"

"Perhaps I don't."

"But you do. It's there in your eyes."

"I will not pick Godric. I refuse. What you offer seems unfair. It is unfair in every way.

" I can be mean Bella. You wouldn't like my dungeon or Kingsley, the man who oversees it. A lady such as you would catch his eye. For all the wrong reasons. No one here will see to your protection or come to your aid." His expression hardened. He stopped in front of her. He made her look up at him as he held her by her chin.

"Barbarian." Bella averted her eyes. She couldn't look into his eyes.

"Make your choice. It would be my pleasure to make it for you if you don't."

Bella tried not let any fear show. The options she had were not desirable one bit. She certainly didn't want to be in a dark depressing dungeon. Little did he know she'd been locked away in one before. She could manage it. Although this man Kingsley she highly doubted. She couldn't handle that. Bella knew what Godric was getting at. She didn't want the man all over her. She knew what could happen. All to hell with his bargaining and haggling.