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A sneer of contempt.
A soft whimper.
"Are you unhappy, pajarita?”
* * *
"Tatiana." Another voice filled my mind, the one that constantly flitted through my memories like golden silk brushing across my skin. "Tati."
I blinked, not wanting to open my eyes to my reality, but something was dragging me from the darkness.
Soft lights, a cool breeze across my skin. Goosebumps prickling across my skin.
Knight's face.
I blinked again. This couldn’t be real, could it?
I didn’t know what was real anymore.
"Knight?" My throat was raw, my body shaking.
"'Thank God," he pulled me to him, his strong arms wrapped around me, pulling me up and into his warmth.
"Am I..." I leaned into him, resting my head against his chest, unable to force out the words. If this was a hallucination, I didn't want to wake up.
"You're alive," his words wrapped around me, comforting, "you're safe." His voice was filled with a desperate edge, almost as if he was trying to comfort himself and not me. The tightened band of steel of his arms around me convinced me that this was real.
"I thought I was going to die," I croaked out.
Somehow he'd found me and saved me from drowning in the pool.
"Never," his arms tightened even more around me. "I'll never let that happen.'
I blinked my eyes closed, unable to accept his words. In this life, safety was never guaranteed. That's why I'd worked so hard to become strong on my own. To learn how to fight, to kill before someone killed me. I never wanted to be helpless again.
Being with Knight again was muddling my senses. Making me weak. Like when I was a kid.
I needed to stop this before I became too dependent on him again. What if he left me again?
I could never go back to being that woman. "Knight."
Soft words, mumbled into his chest, but he still released me, pulling back to look into my eyes. "Yes, baby."
My lower lip trembled and I bit into it to stop it, even though the rest of my body was still jerking uncontrollably. "You have to let me go."
He seemed startled before his grip intensified. "What?"
"You have to let me go," I brushed wet hair from my eyes, suddenly feeling drained in a way I hadn’t in a long time. "I can't keep relying on you." He was already shaking his head, but I rushed to try to convince him. "I came to you when they kidnapped and drugged me. I can’t do this. Not anymore."
"Tatiana, I told you, I'm never going to let you go."
"You have to," I insisted.
"No, I don't," he countered firmly. His expression flickered, then grew darker as he masked whatever emotion he was feeling. "They? This was the same people who drugged you?"
"I...." I shrugged my shoulders helplessly, wishing I had an answer. "I don't know."
"And if you did, would you tell me?" I was silent for a long moment. We were going back into dangerous territory. "It was Carlos," he said.
