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“Enough. I’m done talking. Get to the fucking point.”
“You see that ledge in front of you, the one facing the front of the building? Walk to it.”
“And then what?”
“Jump.”
“Don’t you fucking dare,” my Sparrow growled, and I could hear the struggle in her voice. The strength shining through the hoarseness and the fear.
“How do I even know she’s really there?” I ground out. “That that isn’t someone else or a fucking recording?”
I knew in my gut it wasn’t, but I was stalling. And I needed to be absolutely certain. I needed to see her. I needed Grey and Rook to find me. To stop me…
“You don’t.”
“Then you won’t get what you want. I won’t jump.”
I hung up, my stomach plummeting.
He won’t kill her.
He won’t kill her.
It was less than a minute before my phone rang again. A different sort of ringing, and when I turned my phone to my face, I saw an incoming request for a video call.
My thumb shook over the answer button before I finally pressed it, my lungs refusing to take in air.
There she was.
My throat burned.
My Sparrow caged. Her wings clipped.
Tied to a massive wooden chair with thick leather straps, the chair bolted to the floor. Lengths of dirtied white cloth tied around her neck, her wrists, her forearms, her shins. Binding her so completely that I doubted she could move more than half an inch.
Fury and fear danced in her eyes, the dark hollows beneath them making the sharp sea glass color of them cut me to the bone. A red knuckle pattern marred her pale cheek. Blood stained the oversized white t-shirt covering her otherwise naked body. Her legs trembled against their binds.
Her chin quivered around the mound of gauze gagging her and she shut her eyes, trying to hide herself from me. To hide the reality of where she’d been. What she’d been through.
She didn’t want me to see.
“There,” Drake said and the image shook as he settled his phone somewhere so he could enter the shot. He strode toward her in the small room.
Cement walls. A drain in the floor. I couldn’t see the roof.
It looked like a cell.
I took a screenshot. Then another as he ran a finger over her collarbone and bile rose up the back of my throat.
Her eyes shot open at his touch, and heat flooded my veins.
“Oh,” Drake said, a smile widening on his lips as he crooned in Ava Jade’s ear. “He doesn’t like that, does he? That’s right. He’s the jealous one. Can’t stand to have anyone else look at or touch what he mistakenly thinks is his.”
He snatched her chin, his tongue flicking out from between his lips like a snake to lick her from jaw to earlobe. Her muffled attempts to shout at him only made it ten times worse as her body convulsed in disgust.
“You know, you were right,” he said, releasing her chin, his eyes on me while he reached lower, fingers dipping below the neckline of the t-shirt. “I won’t kill her. And it seems hurting her isn’t motivating enough, but…”
Her jaw clenched when he found her breast and the thin t-shirt material shifted as he squeezed it, hard.
