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“Got it. Giulio’s personal toy,” Donny says, giving Vanessa another intense look. “Do I keep her completely confined?”
“No. As long as she stays here, we don’t need to torture her with isolation. Nobody fucks her but Giulio.” I purposefully exclude Slayer. I can’t stop him from joining when Giulio is there, but there’s no reason to allow him easy access to Vanessa. “Giulio thought she was a little boring. Maybe you can teach her how to—”
“—roleplay,” Donny finishes, rolling his eyes. “He realizes we aren’t a themed club, right? People come here just to blow their load, not to act out their weirdest fantasies. The number of customers who actually want to roleplay is pretty much zero.”
“Giulio wants to roleplay,” I say calmly.
Vanessa is trembling, especially as Donny keeps his eyes on her. There’s not an inch of her he doesn’t check out, and while he isn’t touching her, he might as well be from the intensity of his gaze. She tries to duck behind me, which only makes him laugh.
“Yeah, he always does,” Donny says. “Guess you’ll have time to practice your acting chops, girl.”
I give Vanessa’s neck a slight squeeze. “If there’s nothing else?”
Donny scratches his chin and grimaces. “I saw Slayer leaving. I don’t want him here. He scares all the girls. Can’t you tell Giulio…”
He trails off when he catches my gaze.
“I can’t control who Giulio is friends with,” I say, and I can’t stop the bitterness from coming through. I’ve fantasized, on occasion, of simply executing Slayer and being rid of that problem entirely. But even Emilio considered Slayer an invaluable asset, and unfortunately, I have to agree. He’s too useful for the organization as a whole to simply do away with.
Although, if Slayer somehow crossed paths with an assassin of Angelo Guerra’s caliber… I quickly quash that thought.
“I’m taking her upstairs. Giulio wants everybody to know that if Vanessa disappears, a lot of people here will disappear too.” I wait until Donny nods before I lead Vanessa through the employee-only door.
She follows willingly, likely glad to be off the main floor where she’s away from all of the piercing looks. She’s an attractive woman, and I can’t blame them for staring, even though I have the strong urge to tell them to stop looking at her. She belongs to Giulio now, not them, and it feels disrespectful to have them staring at his new… mistress.
For a few moments, she’s silent, but as soon as I lead her through the door of one of the unoccupied rooms, she speaks up. She puts as much distance between us as possible, which isn’t much, considering the rooms here are tiny. “Why me?” she asks, her voice shaking. “I’m not… my family isn’t… I’m not abroodmare. You don’t even know if I can get pregnant. My sister… her… Someone would pay to get me back. You don’t need to do this to me.”
I shut the door and easily close the distance between us. “If you can’t get pregnant,” and it hurts to even say that, “then I’ll find somebody else for Giulio. But you’re very beautiful, and you would make beautiful children with Giulio.” I unbutton the suit jacket and pull it off of her, pulling it back on and leaving her naked before me.
“There are plenty of other beautiful women out there,” Vanessa says pleadingly, touching my arm. “Please. I have… money. You can have it all. Empty the accounts. Please, you don’t need me.”
“We do need you. There’s nobody else. You aren’t shallow, and you’re smart. Another woman might try to steal from Giulio or make him look bad.” I rub her bare shoulders, and my eyes catch on the semen drying on her breasts. Giulio’s seed, which should have been inside her but is now going to waste, thanks to Slayer. “You’d make a good mother. I saw that much, all the times we talked.”
“But I don’twantthis. I don’t want Giulio. I don’t want any of you. It’s not like you’re going to win me over by forcing me to have sex with you,” she says, and there’s a little courage inside her that I’d been a little afraid would be extinguished. But it’s there.
She’ll survive this without breaking into pieces, even if she doesn’t think she can.
“We don’t need to win you over,” I say steadily. “I like you, Vanessa. I like you more than I liked your sister. You wouldn’t try to lie and manipulate the way she did.”
She flinches, but she doesn’t argue.
“But I don’t need you to like me, or Giulio. I need you to serve your purpose. If you fight us, if you try to hurt Giulio or do anything to threaten or harm his legacy, his future heirs, I will make your life here hell. But if you cooperate, you’ll enjoy some luxuries.”
“I don’t wantluxuries,” she bites out. “I want to go home.”
I sigh with some disappointment that she hasn’t recognized the ugly but inexorable truth of the situation. “What home, Vanessa?”
Vanessa goes still at that, and tears start to well up in her eyes as she seems to realize for the first time that she really has nowhere to go. Her only other option had been to go with her sister’s kidnappers, and they’d probably do far worse to Vanessa herself. At least we want her to be the healthy mother of Giulio’s babies.
“I don’t know,” she mumbles. “But anywhere else. Not here.”
“Giulio is easy to please,” I promise her, gently rubbing the corner of her eye to rub a tear away. “He has his moods, but if you play along, he’ll be happy. He isn’t like his father.”
She trembles at the mention of Emilio. “No? But he’s still willing to use me, whether I want him or not. He still has ties to the sex trafficking industry. I’m not stupid, Damien. I paid attention. I know what sort of things that family does, and none of it’s good.”
I don’t argue with her. I’m a practical man, and if I had morals, I wouldn’t have entered this sort of life. Any squeamishness I might have had died years ago, when I was younger than Vanessa is now. “If not us, then others would be doing this,” I say instead. “This sort of industry is never going away.”
“Is that what you tell yourself?” she asks, bitterness lacing her voice. “Is that what you tell them? It’s going to happen anyway, so you might as well just deal with it?”
