“These are the rules. First, you don’t speak unless I tell you to. Second, you do everything I say. No questions asked. No hesitating or arguing. No attitude.” He’s staring into the depths of my soul, searching for my reaction to his words. Without thinking, like I always do, I open my mouth to speak. He stares at me with a look of disapproval and shakes his head back and forth. “No words, Ivy. Those are the rules.”
