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“Getting mouthy now?”
“Fuck you,” she snapped. A retaliatory stroke crossed her ass. And another. It only took two to bring her down. “F-fuck.”
“Whatever you’re up to must bereallybad. Give me a moment to think about this…”
He used that moment to draw her pain and suffering out. Really draw it out.
Lucca had misread him completely. Caligher wassadistic,and now that she understood that, she felt the teeth of some trap snapping shut around her. How was she supposed to leave when—he was like this?
He continued musing about her potential crimes. “Not general piracy, according to you. No smuggling. What haven’t I asked?”
She was burning hot with delirium. She’d never felt anything like this in her life. It wasn’t Hell. It was Purgatory—and she belonged there for however long it took to weed this terrible pit of darkness out of her soul.
His silence shifted subtly.
Her nerves fired up in alarm.
“You’re not a human, are you?”
The question doused her in ice water and brought everything in her to a ghastly, screeching halt.
She opened her mouth to say something—anything—but what came out was a carnal, formless cry. Electricity dragged her head under the current. Her overwrought body palpitated.
She choked on the pleasure and pain and the twisted reply clawing up her throat. Theyesnoyesnopendulum-swing of it.
Anything might come out of her lips.
Anything.
Misery was Ecstasy andYes-and-Nowere indecipherable andholy actual fuck. She was choking on this divine torment.
He repeated his demand in a cruel inquisitor’s voice. Harsh, utterly terrifying.
“Are you?”
“No!” she sobbed.
A bold-faced fucking lie. There went her chance to come clean.
He was quiet for a long moment, leaving her in a state of icy terror. She was certain—fuckingpositive—that he’d detected her lie.
She could fix this. Somehow.
Something in her struggled to get the right words out. The truth. The key to fixing everything.
Jump over.
Finish this here.
Please. I’m so sorry.
But the current spiked up before she could make her leap of faith and she watched it slip from her grasp.
Like opening those double doors to Hell itself. Shards of pleasure broke open in her core, setting loose devastating waves to pound through every nerve, every cell of her being. Lucca hadliedto him—and now she was burning down in emotional anguish. It hurt and it was everything she deserved. She prayed she burned in Hell for this night.
She buried her face in her pillows and shattered.
CHAPTER7
