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Jakub laughs, the sound brittle, harsh. “They want far more than that, Nothing. This room is just touching the surface of what they need. This istame.”
“Tame?” I shiver at the gravity of his words, at the honesty in his eyes. It’s a bitter truth to swallow, and only fuels my need to escape here as soon as the opportunity presents itself. I can’t let any of them get into my head anymore than they already have. These men are master manipulators. Who’s to say that this conversation right now isn’t just another ruse, another way to get me to drop my guard? Right now Jakub and I are having a conversation. It isn’t one-sided, it’s a sharing of information, and it changes the dynamics, somewhat. But I’ve learnt many things from being the sister to a powerful criminal, and one of them is to know your enemy. Study them, learn and adapt. They think they know me, but they have no idea. It’s only a matter of time before another vision presents itself, and when it does, I’ll be ready to use it to my advantage.
“You’ve lived in a world where vanilla sex is the norm,” Jakub continues, oblivious to my internal thoughts. “I’m bettingNetflix and chillis about as exciting as it gets in your fantasy world.” He raises a brow and smirks, but I refuse to acknowledge that he’s right. All I’ve ever wanted was to be with someone who loves the true me, watch movies with them and make love. It sounds so pathetic now that he’s called me out. “You care for the dead, so I know that unlike many of the people we come across in our business, you’re one of the good ones. Innocent. Kind.Pure,” he says, looking at me knowingly. “My clients would pay thousands to fuck you just to see your virginal blood on their cocks.”
“I’m not a virgin—” I blurt out.
“Yeah, and I’m not a sociopath,” he interrupts. “Regardless, you present me with quite a predicament. On the one hand, I want my revenge and thus keeping you here is essential. On the other hand, you’re a distraction for my brothers, one I hadn’t considered properly. I underestimated how much they needed you, or rather what you represent. They can both become quite obsessive and single-minded in their needs.”
“You don’t seem too happy about it,” I observe.
“Don’t misunderstand me, Nothing. I’m in no way saying I care enough about you to ensure your safety. I’m merely telling you the cold, hard truth. My focus is on our business and keeping what we have here alive. Their focus right now is on you, and that’s a problem that I need to find a solution to.”
“I have one; let me go.”
He shakes his head. “I won’t do that.” Gripping my arm, he pulls me to my feet, then marches me back downstairs, ending the conversation as abruptly as it started. When we reach what I assume to be his room, Jakub pauses. “Did you want Leon to touch you?” he asks, taking me aback.
“No,” I reply. “Of course I didn’t.”
He narrows his eyes at me. “And yet somehow I don’t believe you.”
“You can believe what you want. I didn’t want his touch, like I don’t want yours now,” I reply through gritted teeth, whilst pointedly staring at his tight grip on my arm.
He frowns, searching my face, not letting me go. “Let me rephrase that. When he touched you, did youlikeit?”
My chest and cheeks flame, a surge of heat rising up my body at his question. Even though my body is giving me away, I’ll be damned if I admit that there was a part of me, a twisted, fucked-up part, that did. “No,” I say vehemently.
“Another lie,” Jakub murmurs before leaning in close and dipping his head. The heat of his breath feathers over my skin, but it’s the press of his lips against the pulse point in my neck that has shivers tracing down my spine. He licks me, tasting the blood he’d left there earlier.
“Please,” I beg, my fingers curling into the material of my dress as I white-knuckle ride a sudden wave of my emotions that comes out of nowhere. Confusion, despair, hate, rage,lust, they all course through my veins as he drags his lips up the column of my neck and across my jaw before hovering over my mouth.
“Don’t lie to me again, Nothing,” he says softly. “When Leon touched you, you liked it, didn’t you?”
With a heavy chest, and bitter tears falling from my eyes, I give up a truth that hurts me deeply. “Yes,” I whisper, my voice cracking with pain.
“I know,” Jakub replies gently as he rubs the tip of his nose against the bridge of mine. “Iknow.” Then he plants a gentle kiss, so unexpected, so incredibly fragile against my lips that I let out a fractured sob that tears my heart in two. Drawing back, Jakub leans around me and twists the handle to his bedroom. “Go to sleep. Rest. You’ve earned a few days respite at least. We will not disturb you. I’ll send Nala.”
With that he turns on his heel and leaves me to lick my wounds, the one he and his brothers have so hatefully inflicted on my soul.
