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“You will not use violence onmyship,” I told her. “There is no enemy aboard this ship.” I paused. “Aside fromyou.”
Amada began to struggle again. She screamed a blood curdling scream that pierced my ears and temporarily deafened me.
I tensed my grip on her so hard that my muscles began to cramp, but I had no choice. Amada was really giving back a fight.
Her anger wasn’t enough to overcomemine.I was beyond livid at this point.
“Howdareyou physically strike Carmela,” I breathed into Amada’s neck, grabbing her by the hair again as I pulled.
She cried in pain again and met my gaze. There was still lust burning in her eyes. There was still an insurmountable level of desperation peering back at me. It made me sick. I no longer felt sorry for Amada. She was truly pathetic.
“You’re coming with me,” I said and began to march down the corridor with Amada still struggling under my grip.
“I’m not going anywhere with you!” Amada proclaimed in a spitefully loud voice.
I laughed at her mockingly. “It’s funny that you assume you have a choice.”
Amada’s lips straightened and she tightened her jaw, cutting me with a slashing glare.
I yanked her forward, forcing her to put one foot in front of the other.
“Come on,” I grimaced, struggling harder than I thought I would have against Amada’s resistive weight.
“Where are wegoing?” Amada whined. “You could atleastgive me the decency of an answer there.”
I hesitated. Amada didn’t deserve any decency anymore. She’d all but lost that right as far as I was concerned.
“We’re going to the bridge,” I grumbled through clenched teeth. “Where I’ll have guards keep watch over you.”
“That’sridiculous.” Amada’s voice dripped with venom.
“Given your explosive behavior, I think it’s more than necessary,” I countered.
We arrived at the bridge. I had called in several guards to keep an eye on her because Amada was sometimes able to successfully cajole Silver, and now wasn’t the time to give Amada any extra loopholes to disregard my authority.
However, as soon as we arrived, I noticed that portions of the bridge had been burned through.
“Assess the damage,” I told Nix, whom I’d called on to help with the problem. “I need to go check on Carmela in the women’s lavatory. This one here gave her a pretty nasty punch in the face.”
I nudged my chin in Amada’s direction, referring to her.
Nix’s dark eyes narrowed suspiciously on Amada. “Don’t worry. At least the fire is contained now. I’ll try to see if I can pull the tapes and see what might have caused it and what we can salvage.”
“Thank you.”
I had no idea how this had gone unnoticed, but I didn’t have time to worry about it right now because Carmela’s physical and emotional wellbeing was the biggest concern of mine at the moment.
Besides, I had faith in Nix. He would keep everything under control and make sure nothingelsegot burned or destroyed or maimed in the meantime. I had a sneaking suspicion that as long as Amada was being watched over, nothing else catastrophic would happen.
I raced back to the wing where I’d left Carmela, jogging to get there as fast as I could because I was desperate to comfort her.
I found her standing over the sink, inspecting her swollen, bloody face. Fat tears rolled down her cheeks. Her shoulders wilted and occasionally sputtered as she tried her hardest to suppress her sobs. She was so brave and pitiful at the same time.
“Amada is being held prisoner on the bridge,” I said, cautiously entering the room. I wasn’t sure how she was going to react to me. I felt exclusively to blame for this. The guilt ripped through my heart and tore me apart. “I am so sorry this happened to you.”
I slowly approached her and gently placed my hand on her shoulder, gazing at her tenderly in the mirror.
I was relieved when she didn’t immediately try to shy away from me. She let me touch her. She turned around and sobbed into my chest. She let me hold her and comfort her. She let me take her in my arms and make her feel safer than she had in weeks after being on theBladewith me.
