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Dreams.
It’s also where I keep Adrik’s letters. The ones he wrote back to me. Once a week, instead of texting, we used to leave letters in the old, knotted tree by the bridged pond on the borders of my father’s property which ran alongside a public park. Every Sunday I would take his letter and leave one of my own. This went on for four years, until my twentieth birthday. That was the day everything changed, and Adrik disappeared, leaving my heart shattered in pieces.
That’s what you get for believing in fairy tales.
Dredging myself from the depths of my pity party I make my way over to the small table where Anna had graciously left me lunch and a bottled water. It is a few hours past lunch and I am grateful for the kind gesture.
I perch myself on the edge of the chair that looks out the window and nibble on the fruits and cheeses on the plate as I dig through my journal. My stomach is still churning from the mausoleum. The tomb has my name on it. My name, my birthday, and a date of death set the same as the day of my birth.
If I wasn’t one hundred percent positive my parents were, indeed, my parents, I might suspect I am adopted. Except I have irrefutable proof they are. When they announced my engagement to Peter Spiridakos, I was forced to go through a paternity test to ensure that I was a blood heir. That had been the only non-humiliating test I was forced to do that day.
I shiver. Thinking of what I had been forced to endure for that engagement still makes me sick.
A lump forms in my throat as I open the last letter I received from Adrik. It had been his response to my upcoming engagement.
Moya malen'kaya I'vitsa,
The newsof your engagement is troubling, and I am working on a plan to make it right.
I won’t let you become another man’s possession.
Every first you have will be mine and mine alone.
Do not worry about your family, they are no match for the power I hold behind me.
Soon you will see.
I look forward to the moment my lips glide over your soft skin as my hands toy with your perfect breasts.
I’m hard at just the thought of seeing you naked beneath me, begging for my cock.
I’ll cherish the moment you scream my name in ecstasy.
Meet me on your birthday at our spot.
I promise to take you away from all this.
All my love.
Adrik
If only he’d shown.
That was the night I learned just how sinister my new fiancé was. My parents may have never laid a hand on me, but Peter didn’t have the same reservations. He is a monster. A savage, but even I know he is nothing compared to Adrian Volkov.
Although Adrian hasn’t hurt me. Just humiliated me by using my body against me.
It wants him.
Craves him.
A long breath escapes me as I tuck the letters back into my journal and bury the book beneath the cushion of the chair. Adrian is never in here long enough to sit, so I doubt he will find it. My gaze moves to the window. There’s a flurry of activity outside and I sit up straighter to get a better view. Adrian’s men are dragging a man across the yard kicking and screaming. He’s beaten and bloody, hands tied behind his back. His eyes are covered and he’s begging… no, pleading for mercy.
Shaking the image from my mind, I abandon the chair for the bed. I let my eyes drift shut and wait for sleep. Maybe this time I won’t dream of the monster keeping me captive in this room.
* * *
I don’t sleepfor very long, but it was long enough that the sun was already setting behind the Nevada mountains. Something had roused me from my sleep, and it takes me a minute to realize that it was the sound of the shower running in the bathroom.
