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The two men looked at each other, then looked back at Ivan, but still didn’t say a word. They’d been speaking Italian when they grabbed us, so it made me wonder if their English wasn’t that great. I translated what Ivan had said to Italian. Both men were surprised to hear me speak Italian.
“Yeah, I know, right? It means I understood everything you assholes were saying when you grabbed us. I don’t forget easily. When we get out of here, and we will get out of here, I’m going to enjoy sending you to meet your dead friends,” I said. I could feel my anger rising as I thought about what they said about me when they grabbed me. They actually had a discussion about whether they could get away with having their way with me before they brought us to the building. They only decided against it because Ivan was with me and they’d have to explain killing him. They had orders to bring us both alive.
One of them, a clear smirk on his face, said, “Strong words from someone who’s tied to a chair.”
“Ask your buddy how much stronger my actions are than my words. Oh, wait. You can’t. I shot him in his goddamn face,” I said. I had to admit I was actually enjoying this little exchange. They had grossly underestimated me when they grabbed me.
“Princess, careful. I don’t know what you’re saying, but I know you’re verbally owning them right now,” Ivan said to me in Russian. He said it quietly, so the two guys barely heard him.
Ivan was right. I was supposed to be making them think they had the upper hand with me, so I tried to show restraint.
“You never answered his question. What do you want with us?” I asked in Italian.
“We’re just following orders. Our boss is very interested in you and the men you keep company with,” one of them said.
“Who’s your boss?” I asked.
“Patience, dear. You’ll find out soon enough.” With that, they both got up and walked out of the room, closing the door behind them.
Ivan looked at me, waiting for me to tell him what had just been said. Before I could tell him, he said, “Your Italian is better when you’re angry.” His wide smile spread across his face.
I laughed. “You didn’t understand what they were talking about when they grabbed us. They were trying to decide if they had enough time to pull over and take turns raping me. They decided against it because they would’ve had to kill you and they couldn’t come up with a reason to cover. I told them when we get out of here, I would enjoy sending them to meet their dead friends.” I glanced at Ivan, his anger visible on his face where not two seconds ago his smile had been. “I asked them again what they wanted with us. They said they were following orders and whoever they’re working for is very interested in the men I keep company with. It’s gotta be Sal or Armando.”
“Agreed. It could be both of them, for all we know.”
“That wouldn’t surprise me either. They said we’ll find out soon enough,” I said.
Ivan sighed. “They really are using you as bait. I would rather get out of here before that happens, but I also want to see who is behind this. If we leave now, we won’t know for sure who ordered this.”
“Oh, I’m all for waiting for the big reveal. If it’s Armando, I want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he deserves to die.”
I heard Ivan laugh quietly again. “Misha was right, you know. You’re so much like us now that it’s scary.”
I laughed this time too. “He told you about that, huh?”
“Yeah, except for Stephen and the really big stuff like my past, there aren’t many secrets among us. And now that Stephen told us, there aren’t many secrets with him either.”
“That guy. I used to think he was a serial killer and I was still strangely fine with that possibility. Now that I know he’s just a vampire, it all makes sense,” I said, laughing.
“We all thought that and we were all fine with it. Have you heard about him when he gets pushed too far?” Ivan asked.
“Stephen? He can be pushed too far? Really?”
“He’s similar to your goddamn prince. The bloodlust is almost as bad in Stephen. I’ve only seen it happen a couple of times, but there was no stopping him when it happened. I’m counting on it happening when they find us. They could just send him and your goddamn prince in here and nobody would walk out of here alive. Doesn’t matter how many people are in this building with us.”
“I might enjoy seeing that,” I said.
We kept talking quietly for a while longer, just trying to pass the time. I needed to pee, after what I assumed to be a few hours of sitting in this chair. I groaned. “Shit, I need to pee. Think they’ll let me use the bathroom?”
“If they do, use the opportunity to get a feel for where everything is. I know where the stairs are, where the elevator is. Look for things that can be used as weapons and distractions. Like fire extinguishers and paper towel dispensers in the bathroom, if they’re metal.”
“If they let me use the bathroom, then they’ll be more likely to let you use it too. Can you lift a knife off one of them if they let you out of the chair?”
“Possibly. You can too, princess. Use a distraction, like tripping and bumping into them to grab what you need.”
I chewed on my bottom lip, nervous about trying to lift something off of one of them, worried about what would happen to me or Ivan if they caught me.
It wasn’t very much longer and the same two men came back into the room. I told them that I needed to pee. They both walked to the chairs we were tied to. One of them pulled a gun and pointed it at Ivan. “You try anything and he dies,” he said flatly. The other guy cut my restraints and pulled me out of the chair. He kept a tight hold of my arm the entire way to the bathroom. There was no way I was going to be able to grab anything off of him, so I looked around while we were walking. There was a fire extinguisher on the opposite side of the floor from the room we were being kept in. It was by the elevators.
