"If you EVER dare to try to touch my face again with those claws," Heena said quietly but with absolute conviction, "believe me, I will bury you directly in the ground beneath this room. That's not a threat—it's a promise."
She pointed downward with her finger to emphasize the point.
Maya literally shrieked with rage and tried to jump at Heena, attempting to tackle her to the ground.
But Heena just kicked her in the stomach—not with full force, but enough to send Maya stumbling backward and falling onto her bed, gasping for air.
Heena wasn't particularly worried about consequences.
Thanks to Maya's proud and suspicious nature, she'd literally thrown both of her assigned keeper-servants out of the room earlier, wanting privacy for her sulking.
And even if those servants HAD been present, in this world, nothing was more powerful than money.
Buying the silence or cooperation of two newly-hired servants who had no particular loyalty to Maya? That was not a big deal at all.
