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“Don’t give Cain any ideas,” Stellan warned.
To my surprise, Pax caught my other ankle too and lifted my feet onto his lap, where he began to massage them absently. I finished my first donut and picked up my coffee, determined to enjoy this rare, beautiful moment before I dove back into my father’s hell.
I’d gotten the dangerous men of the Sphinx under my spell, enough for foot rubs and kink.
* * *
We had to go through a long process to get into the supermax where my father was being kept. I bit my lip and closed my eyes through the pat-down. I hated for strangers to touch me. Then Pax settled his hand on my shoulder, and it felt like he was grounding me, just like in bed together when it was easier to sleep if he was near me.
My sense of dread grew with every minute as we moved deeper and deeper into the supermax to the visitors’ area.
“Please stay back,” I told them when we arrived at the bank of visitor spaces, with plexiglass between us and the prisoners. “I don’t want him to know anything about you.”
“Being all protective?” Stellan murmured, his brows rising. “I didn’t think I deserved that.”
“It’s Pax I want to protect,” I said. Then I aimed a cheeky grin his way. “After all, Pax is the delicate one.”
Pax just rolled his eyes. “Go, before I take up Cain’s hobby of spanking your ass.”
That sounded great to me, and I felt lighter, happier, after bantering with the two of them.
Then I turned to see my father shuffling into the prisoners’ side, his posture erect and proud as anyone can be with their wrists and ankles chained. They clearly saw my father as a threat, even now. My stomach twisted and sank as his gaze met mine. I moved quickly to the seats, but I had no doubt those bright, intelligent blue eyes had recorded my men. I knew he knew something about them already, but I didn’t want him to have any extra windows into my life.
Instead, I took a seat in the blue plastic chair and flashed a smile his way. “Hello, Dad.”
“I’m so pleased you came to see me early, Aurora. I’ve been looking forward to our next visit.”
He’d love to hear about how his followers had terrorized me, but I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction. Especially when I was sure the prison was recording our conversation. I didn’t need anything tying me to the pile of bodies.
“Did you miss me?” he prompted.
I swallowed and realized I was taking too long to answer, despite my best attempt to be breezy. “I came to ask you a question.”
He leaned back in his chair, trying to cross his legs only to realize he couldn’t with his chained ankles. “All right. What is it?”
“Did you kill my friend, Sophia?”
“Sophia.” He frowned as if he were trying to remember her. “The cute little blond one with no sense of boundaries?”
“Yes.”
He shook his head. “No. I never hurt her.”
He must have seen the skeptical look on my face, because he added, “Have I ever lied to you?”
“You’ve hurt me over and over.”
“For your own good, Delilah. It hurt me more than it hurt you. I love and cherish you so much. I had to try to make you strong enough to face this dark world. To make you an instrument of justice instead of yet another victim.”
His words made my heart hammer in my chest. He was so damned arrogant, so convinced he was right even as he flayed people alive.
“You told me we were only hurting evil people.”
“They were all evil people. I didn’t lie to you.”
“Not everyone we took was a… child predator.”
He inclined his head. “But theywereall evil. In their own ways.”
