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“I’ll give you a choice,” he said, releasing my surely bruised leg to clamp around my throat again. He leaned down, pressing his face close as his fingers cut off some of my air. “Listen carefully, pet. You can get on the first flight back to Sweden tomorrow morning, come back home with me where you belong.”
“Never.” I gasped.
“Or… you can refuse, and I will kill him. Kill that big, dumb American so you will have nothing here.”
My blood turned to ice. Fear momentarily stopped my heart. It didn’t matter that he cut off my air because I no longer breathed.
He was threatening Win. Threatening the thing I loved most.
“No!” I roared, rolling my whole body and jumping to my feet. He scurried up as I threw my fist, catching him in the side of the head.
He fell back onto the floor, and I moved past him.
He grabbed my ankle and yanked, and I fell facedown, my entire body vibrating with pain.
I’d made it to hands and knees when he flipped me, covering my body with his and sinking his teeth into my collarbone.
I howled in pain as I felt his teeth break skin, and his hand slapped over my mouth, muffling the sound.
He chewed on me for what felt like forever, and every time I tried to shove him off, it only hurt worse.
Finally, I went limp under him, ribs on fire, face hot, and pain radiating through my limbs. If I stopped fighting, he would let me go.
“Took longer than usual.” He grunted, seeming to understand I was giving in.
Tears rushed into my eyes, but I refused to let them fall.
In my pocket, my cell vibrated, and I bit down on my lip.
Oskar laughed. “That him?” he asked, swiping the stain of red off his lip and tasting it with his tongue. “The one you seem to think you could walk away from me for?” He chuckled. “I let you have your fun in Sweden, but it made you brave. You forgot where you really belong. Be at the airport tomorrow morning at six a.m. Do not be late. If you aren’t on that plane with me, I’ll kill him.”
“You wouldn’t,” I said, hating the doubt I heard in my voice. The truth was I wasn’t so sure he wouldn’t.
Oskar looked straight into me with his flat, lifeless eyes. “I would. If for no other reason than to prove to you I could.”
“Just kill me,” I said, my voice dull. It felt like the worst kind of betrayal to Win.
But it seemed it was his destruction or mine. And if I had to choose, it would be mine. He would be hurt. Maybe he would never trust again.
But he would be alive. He would be here with Wes and Max.
“You don’t want me anyway. You just want to control me.”
Oskar chuckled, and my bones rattled.How did I ever once think I loved him? How did I ever become this man’s victim? Why couldn’t I get away?
“Ah, pet. I can’t control you if you’re dead.” With those words, he stood, straightening his clothes and hair as if his appearance needed to be pristine.
“Six a.m. tomorrow morning. If you aren’t there, I’ll kill him. I’ll kill him and fly back to Sweden, and no one will be the wiser.”
“I’ll tell. I’ll tell everyone.”
“And they will all believe you. Just like before.”
All the air whooshed from my lungs, my body deflating like an old balloon. “If I come back with you, you will let Win alone?”
“You have my word. And I always keep my word, right, pet? After all, I told you I’d never let you go, and here I am.”
I hated him. I hated him all the way to the deepest part of my soul.
