"Beautiful, He Said"

His expression remained unshaken, yet the intensity in his eyes deepened, like a storm brewing on the horizon. "Don't make this harder than it needs to be." I hesitated. His unpredictability was terrifying, and I'd learned the hard way that resisting only made it worse.

But this-this was different. This was humiliating.

I stood up, my body still trembling with rage. "I'm not your doll."

"You are, though," he said with a casual shrug, the smirk playing at his lips again. "The sooner you accept that, the easier this will be for both of us."