The following weeks.

Have been absolutely awful. Not only did Harmony keep you on an extremely tight leash (sometimes_ literally), _she also kept you from interacting with any other female students in anyway possible. When school started again, you were **** to constantly take her notes and pair with her in all of the classes that you two have together. Harmony would constantly skip meals in order to study in her room, and thus you were **** to bring her food from every meal. During the evenings, you had to go directly to her room, where you served as her footrest while she studied. The silver lining was that thanks to the rigid standard that Harmony held towards her notes, you also began to become significantly more adept at note taking and the extra time to study that you found in the evenings while you served as her footrest meant that your own grades had also begun to improve significantly. The professors noticed your strange behavior of course, but after Professor Dove assured all her colleagues that this is just a young man smitten with a beautiful girl and that she would ultimately be good for you, their worries about your strange behavior and the collar that you now wore constantly were put to rest. Harmony's constant teasing and harassment, as well her ban on masturbation was also giving you a serious case of blue balls. Meal times were the only times where you were free from her, but since Harmony forbid you from talking, touching, or even maintaining eye contact with any of the female students, meal times were even more miserable.

"Hey, I think I have a solution to your little problem."

You look up and see Liam and Kiera sit down across from you. Now you sat alone for every meal and the table around you was deserted.

"I'm gonna go ahead and assume that you dueled Harmony again for some reason and that you lost." Your eyes make contact with Keira's for a split second, pity and concern written all over her expression. You look away before your collar can deliver another shock.

"I'm also gonna assume that she made you her personal **** as her end of the deal and that she's the one making you wear that collar." Liam looked thoughtful for a moment before continuing. "I think that you have to challenge her to another duel."

You glare at him with a mixture of disbelief and confusion. "How the hell would that work? The contact of the duel forbids me from dueling again until this contract is fulfilled."

"Yes, but as long as the recipient of the original contract agrees that the contract is fulfilled, you can duel again."

You froze at the thought. If you could break free from this nightmare and perhaps even turn the tables on Harmony, it would be worth whatever the risk was in order to bait her into accepting another challenge. You get up from your seat with a renewed sense of determination.

"Atta boy! You've beaten her before, now you just need to come up with something that would bait her into accepting."

"Don't worry Liam, I think I have just the thing."