This chapter made me think of Beauty and the Beast for some reason. Though it's a rated R version, of course! Why doesn't Anna just say no and cause Jared some unimaginable pain in the nether regions? I don't want to pile on and say that she deserved such treatment for lying. She has skated by the whole time, and I had thought that Jared would be the exception to that--not falling for her charms. But, I didn't expect that exception to be this way. No matter how many times she lied to him, I don't think this was a proper punishment. Nobody deserves to be treated the way Anna's being treated. Sure, we can chalk it up to the disconnect resulting from his hyberstasis, but still, no decent person would treat another as a sex slave. Jared kind of lost point on this one, for me.
Why doesn't Anna fight back? Why doesn't she try to escape? So many questions littering my mind right now.
Ah, being mated means the sex clause is null, even if she were to want to say no. It's the ultimate vow. As for Jared, for a century there hasn't been an unturned female and he completely believes that the only reason she is unturned is a deception of some kind, working for the damned. He has no idea that she isn't centuries old, every encounter with her proves her to be deceptive and strengthens his reasons to think the worst of her. He doesn't have your information only what's in his own head. That she was stringing along someone called Michael, that she was stringing along the 'human boy'. And he's not a hero. Or decent. Not yet anyway, he's spent a very long time being anything but.
Fight back? How? Escape? He has senses that far exceed hers.
But don't worry...things are always darkest before the dawn ;) And the dawn is always brighter after a dark period....
It makes sense. I've always said that Anna's been able to skate by without any consequences. I also noted that it might be because of the disconnect from the hyberstasis. But yeah, all in my previous comment.
Sorry I havent been able to fully comment. I'm with @randomli and my family on my vacation in Singapore :) It's the short vacation I referred to before haha