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“I fucking sent me.”
His face twists in a cruel sneer. “And who the fuck are you, because you look”—he dips his head and runs his nose along my jawline, making a show of inhaling loudly—“and smell like a fucking whore.”
I spit in his face, and he sinks his knee deeper into my ribcage until I feel like I’m going to vomit.
Spittle drips from the sides of his mouth, and the foul stench of his breath makes me retch. “Who the fuck are you and why are you here?”
“My name is Keres Sideris. My mother was Kendra Sideris,” I growl through clenched teeth.
His lips curl up in a mocking grin. “Should I know either of you? I fuck a lot of whores.”
I shift my hips and my back slides against the cold concrete as my heart splinters into a million tiny pieces. He doesn’t even remember her name. Of course he doesn’t. “I hear you like to sell women and kids too. Do your own kids know what a sick, twisted fuck their father is?”
His face turns purple, and the cocky smirk is replaced with a rabid, bared-teeth grimace. “I sell whores!”
I hiss at him. “You’re a sick fuck!” I bring up my right knee, aiming it at his side, but he dodges me easily and laughs at my futile efforts.
“Keres!” The sound of Ace and Romeo calling my name precedes them banging on the door.
“You brought some friends, Keres?” He says my name slowly, rolling the sounds around his mouth and drawing out the final letter on a hiss.
“Yeah, and you can do whatever the hell you want to me in here, but as soon as you leave this room, they will tear you apart with their bare hands.”
That makes him laugh, and the sound is cruel and mocking. “I’m not sure you understand the concept of a panic room, whore. All I have to do is push a button and I’ll have a dozen men here with all manner of weapons to deal with your friends outside. I won’t be leaving this room until they’re both dead.”
I jerk my arms and try to wrench from his grip. I’ll kill him before he can call anyone. He brings his face close to mine, the sour stench of his breath making me gag again, and licks a path from my neck all the way to my temple. I shiver with revulsion. “But first, little whore, you’re going to learn exactly how much of a sick fuck I can be, and they’re going to listen to every single one of your screams.”
I clamp my lips together. He will never hear me scream. Never.
“They’re going to listen to you cry and beg me to stop. And know this, whore,” he spits the last word. “The more you bleed, the harder I’ll get.”
I turn my head, watching the door as the shouting and banging continues, and I hope with everything I have that Ace and Romeo find a way through. But even if they get through the wooden facade, they’ll never make it past the reinforced steel.
“It’s a panic room. You won’t get in here,” I shout, and Theo smacks me across the face with the flat of his meaty palm. I run my tongue over my teeth, tasting blood. “Get out of here while you can,” I shout again, earning me another smack.
The banging and shouting stops.
“You think they’ve gone and left you?” Theo sniggers in my ear. “Left their little whore because she’s worthless now?”
My nostrils flare as rage thunders through my veins like it’s my lifeblood. Whether Ace and Romeo are out there or not, I’m in this alone now.
Chapter
Forty-Three
ACE
The sound of the blood rushing in my ears is so loud that I can barely hear Romeo talking despite him standing right next to me.
“Ace!” he hisses, pushing against my shoulder. “What the fuck are we gonna do?”
I screw my eyes closed and take deep breaths. We can fix this. We can’t leave her in there all alone with that fucking animal. How the fuck did we not know the asshole had a panic room?
“I dunno yet,” I whisper. I run my hands over the wooden panels. They’re solid, but we could get through them. Except that would only lead us to another door, probably made of steel. Panic rooms don’t have wooden doors.
“What about that hacker Nathan knows? What if she knows how to get inside this thing?”
I shake my head. “We don’t have that kind of time.”
