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Marco.
He was back.
“Juliana.” His voice was deep yet soft.
Somehow this felt worse than if his voice had been outright angry. His eyes were blank, but I knew he was more dangerous like this than if he was openly raging.
Without realizing it, I had taken a couple of steps backward as he moved into the room until the backs of my calves hit the bed. I stumbled onto the bed and put my palms out behind me to steady myself.
But he continued moving toward me.
As he came nearer, I could feel the heat radiating off his body, or was it rage rolling off him in waves? Either way, this wasn’t a good time to be around him and unconsciously I cowered against the comforter.
He seized my arms in his iron grip, making me wince in pain as he hauled me to my feet.
I knew that he was going to kill me now.
Any reprieve I’d previously been allowed was now over. I struggled as he dragged me from the room, but I was no match for his strength and no match for his anger.
“Where are we going?” I cried as he tugged me down the stairs and out of the mansion. We headed toward the large garage block.
Was he driving me somewhere else to kill me? Maybe somewhere by water so that my body could easily be disposed of afterward, or a construction site where I could be dumped into a tank of concrete.
Terrified thoughts, one after another, were racing through my mind.
When we entered the garage, we walked past all the SUVs and sports cars, instead reaching a door that led to another area.
I didn’t know what was in there, but I could feel the cold and damp radiating off the concrete floor and the stale air stung my nostrils. I knew that if I went in there, I wouldn’t be coming back out alive.
I tried to stop him from taking me through the door, but my attempts were futile.
He stood behind me and gripped my upper arms propelling me forward. We went down a corridor and he opened another door and pushed me into a room.
This was it. I’d been brought out here to be punished and killed. I prayed the kill would be quick.
I couldn’t stop my limbs from shaking and the tears from slipping down my cheeks.
Once we were inside the room, he let me go and I whirled around so that I was facing him and could see what he was doing. At the same time, I took a few steps back as if that could help me escape his clutches.
He regarded me with a twisted smile and raised one eyebrow. “You seem afraid of me,” he said as he prowled toward me.
I took a step back with each step he took forward until my back hit the cold wall and I could move no further.
Then I had no choice but to be pressed up against the hard wall and I could only watch him as he moved nearer to me until he was standing right in front of me. He raised his hand to my face, and I flinched, expecting the worst.
But he ran the back of his fingers against my tear-stained cheek in the gentlest of caresses. “You don’t need to be afraid. I’m not going to hurt you.”
“You aren’t?”
“No…not yet.”
“Then why have you brought me out here?” My voice was quivering.
“You’ll see.”
“You’re not going to kill me yet?”
“Where would be the fun in that? But you will receive a punishment tonight.”
