Tyson ties Laikyn to their bed and has sex with her, leaving a prominent hickey on her neck to mark her as his property. He pulls out before she can orgasm and then inserts a vibrator. To silence her, he uses a large, inflatable ball gag, forcing it into her mouth after pinching her nose to make her gasp for air. Leaving the vibrator remote on her chest and his belt on her neck as a threat, Tyson goes to shower. Laikyn is left overwhelmed by pain, frustration, and arousal.

After his shower, Tyson returns and turns off Laikyn’s vibrator before she can orgasm. He whips her with his belt, then removes her butt plug to have anal sex with her for the first time. At the same time, he calls Collin and puts the phone on speaker so Laikyn is forced to listen as he tells Collin to come to the club. Tyson taunts Laikyn throughout the assault, during which she orgasms. Afterward, he unties her and carries her to the bath, where he gently bathes her. Laikyn feels ashamed for having enjoyed the punishment, and Tyson holds her as she cries.

A flashback shows Tyson getting a panicked call from Whitney, who claims she is being followed. In the present, Tyson ambushes Collin in his office and has his men restrain him. Laikyn realizes Collin is working for her father when he calls her Tyson’s puppet “just like your sister” (361). Tyson shoves a heated police badge into Collin’s mouth as punishment for touching Laikyn in the club. He then orders his men to throw Collin outside alive so that he can be tracked.

Later, Laikyn goes to her locker and powers on the secret phone her father gave her. Instead of initiation tasks, she finds dozens of photos proving she has been surveilled. She puts the phone back just as a fight breaks out in the club. In the chaos, she is trampled and stabbed. Her coworker Colton finds her as she struggles to breathe.

Tyson rushes to the club’s basement to find Laikyn stabbed. When she panics and tries to remove the knife, he has Colton inject her with a sedative. Gavin arrives to treat her wound. Tyson privately blames himself for exposing Laikyn to harm by making her work in the club. He reflects that he should have learned after what happened with Whitney.

Ten days later, Laikyn goes down to the club basement and sees Tyson torturing the man who stabbed her. The man reveals someone wants Laikyn dead and predicts she will die in Tyson’s arms, just like Whitney. Tyson then kills the man by slitting his throat. The event makes Laikyn reconsider her belief that Tyson murdered her sister.

In a flashback, Tyson and his friend Ryat find a brutalized and dying Whitney in an abandoned house. Tyson blames himself for failing to protect her. 

In the present, Tyson fires Laikyn from the club for her own safety, which leads to an argument. Laikyn feels ashamed that Tyson’s violent protection of her makes her feel loved. Remembering the secret phone from her father, she resolves to show it to Tyson. She rushes to her locker but finds that the phone is gone.

A flashback shows Tyson at the hospital, where doctors confirm Whitney is dead. In the present, he orders his men to search the phone of the man he killed. 

At the club, Laikyn sits at the bar, aimless and frustrated. The bartender, Beau, serves her several shots of cinnamon whiskey. Watching an amorous couple at the bar makes Laikyn intensely aware of her own recent sexual deprivation, and she orders another drink.

Drunk, Laikyn goes to Tyson’s office and seductively demands he punish her. Though aroused, Tyson has been avoiding sex with Laikyn as she is still healing from the stab wound. Instead of engaging, he orders Beau to drive Laikyn to their house, which has much higher security. Before Beau takes her, Laikyn whispers that she saw him kill the man in the basement and asks why he cares about her. Tyson tells her he has “always cared” and sends her away. He resolves that once he has eliminated the threat against her life, he will ensure Laikyn knows what she means to him.

A week later, Tyson arrives home early in the morning to find Laikyn has prepared a romantic breakfast. She serves him a glass of whiskey that she has drugged with a vial she found among their wedding items. After he loses consciousness, Laikyn ties him to his chair as revenge for planning to drug her on their wedding day. When he wakes an hour later, she straddles and taunts him before giving him oral sex, leaving him tied to the chair after he orgasms on his own chest.

Tyson breaks the chair to free himself, and ties Laikyn to the dining room table. He tortures her with rope bondage, spanking, and burning candle wax. 

Afterward, Laikyn tells Tyson she found the drugs in a bag from their honeymoon suite. Tyson denies they were his and reveals they must have belonged to Luke, her original fiancé. He explains that he followed Luke for days and saw him drop off the bag at the hotel before the wedding.

Tyson believes Luke’s plan to drug Laikyn justifies his own violent intervention in her life. He admits to himself that he loves her and must protect her, even if it makes her hate him. He kisses her and prepares to return to the club. Before he leaves, Laikyn confesses that her father gave her a secret phone for her initiation. She explains that the phone contained photos of her being followed and that it has gone missing from her locker. Tyson realizes that it was stolen and asks who else knew about it. She admits that she told Bethany.

In a flashback, Tyson is arrested at the hospital for Whitney Minson’s murder as a horrified Laikyn watches. 

In the present, Tyson summons Bethany to his office. She confesses that Laikyn’s father, Frank Minson, blackmailed her into helping him surveil Laikyn. She also reveals that she attended a party with Laikyn’s brother, Miller, who spoke to Laikyn there in secret. Tyson, who has already found the stolen phone in Bethany’s locker, fires her and instructs her to tell Frank Minson she lost it. Furious that Laikyn has kept another secret from him, Tyson returns home late, planning to wake her and demand to know what she and her brother discussed.