“I am no slave. Not to any Master who buys me, and sure as hell not to you. The moment the winning bidder takes me is the moment I flip the roles. You can doubt me all you want, but I will not kneel to any man a moment longer. Let them beat me. Let them kill me. I will go down as Everleigh Davenport, and no one will take that away from me. Don’t believe me?” She closed the distance between us. “Have me whipped. See if I break.”