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“How do I know you’re telling the truth? I know you promised no lies, but I lied to you. You always punish. You have to have your revenge. What if you were just lying to me?”
“Is that what you believe?”
“I think you’re just trying to hurt me. Just making me feel bad about what I’d done, breaking me so I’d never do it again. To contain me in that image you have for me. The only way you want me to be.”
I took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of my nose. Part of me hoped I wouldn’t have to do what I came here to do. She, as it seemed to be the only thing she was adamant on achieving, killed any hope.
“Pretending something is a dream doesn’t make it unreal, my Angel. Believe whatever you want, but it doesn’t change the truth.” I sat next to her on the bed and undressed her. She stared at me with a frown as I took in her naked body. Then I put my hand in my pocket. “I made you another promise before I left. I’m going to prove to you what your soul is made of. Then you’ll know what’s real and what’s not.” I got out handcuffs from my pocket and cuffed one of her hands to the bed.
Her scowl deepened. Normally, she’d be pleased when I cuffed her to bed and had my way with her. She’d even beg for it. But today, she read me. This wasn’t going to be pleasurable. “What are you going to do?”
“Shhhh. Watch.”
Her head whipped toward the door. “Why is it open?” She pulled at the cuffs and realized she couldn’t break free. “Answer me.”
“I said shut up and watch. Unless you want me to gag you.”
She snapped her lips shut and kept her eyes on the door. I unbuttoned my shirt and then took off my belt. “Let her in,” I said to the guards outside the door.
Angel’s eyes bulged as she bolted upright. “Her? Who’s her? What are you doing, Tino? What the fuck are you doing?”
My fingers clawed around her cheeks, closing her jaw. “Shut. The fuck. Up.” I kept the eye contact until I was sure she got the message, and then I walked from the bed and back to the doorway.
A woman sauntered in. Red hair and lipstick. Green dress that revealed more of her body than it covered. Cheap jewelry, perfume and heels, and a sultry smile. I’d never seen her before in my life and wouldn’t see her again after tonight.
The guards slammed the door shut the second she was in. Her head jerked toward the sound, and it was a moment before she glanced back in my direction. “Are they always that rough?”
I didn’t bother answer. I took a seat, the best one that would give Angel the full spectacle, and gestured with two fingers for the woman—I should know her name, but I didn’t find any shred of care to help me pretend—to come closer.
Her heels echoed through the silence as the fake smile on her face began to vanish. One look at the windowless room with the abandoned crib managed to knock it off her face. Then she caught a glimpse of Angel.
The woman—I shouldn’t even call her that. She was a whore, too lost in her vice and addiction to care about life itself, who jumped at the opportunity, teeth and claws in, once she knew I, the client, would pay enough for a month worth of blow—stopped in her tracks. “Okay… Let me guess. Your wife?”
I nodded at her with a smirk.
“When they said kinky, I expected some bondage, maybe some anal, but I didn’t think it’d be the wife tied up watching while I had all the fun.”
“Tino,” Angel said quietly. “Is this true? Tell me this is not true. Tell me you’re not going to fuck some whore right in front of me.”
“And she still can’t keep her mouth shut,” I mumbled.
“How do you expect me to stay quiet when you’re about to fuck someone else?!” Her stare daggered the woman. “If you touch him, I’ll kill you.”
“Hey, lady, ease up. I thought you were in on this. Never mind. It’s none of my business. He’s paying me to be here. I have to do whatever he asks.” The woman threw a seductive smile at me. “Besides, it’s a crime to hog this man all to yourself, don’t you think?”
Angel shook her head at me, one tear falling down her cheek. “I’ll never forgive you, Tino, not for this. Do anything but not this. Anything but this.” She rattled the cuffs. “You’re mine. No one else can have you. It’s not only you that feels that way. You can’t do this. You’re mine!”
I took off my shirt and folded it neatly before I ordered the woman to take off my pants. She gave her back to Angel and kneeled before me. Angel screamed while the woman worked out the zipper, and as she was about to pull down my pants she got hit with my gun and froze.
“Mi dispiace. I didn’t mean to scare you. Where are my manners?” I pulled it from the back of my pants and took the knife from the sock, too. Then I got up and put them in the nightstand drawer. “Now, where were we?”
Angel held on to me for dear life. “I’m begging you. Don’t touch her. I’m sorry. I’ve learned my lesson. I should have never said what I said. I love you, Tino. I loved you from the moment I knew you existed, even when I thought you were only in my head. You didn’t make me fall for you. That was all me. You didn’t force me to be with you. I’ve always wanted you. I prayed to be yours. For years, I’d been looking for you, doing everything to bring you out from the dark, to see you, to have you. It was all me, Tino. You were right. Everything I did was all me. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
“For what, Angel?”
She swallowed. “For betraying you. For blaming you for my mistakes. And…” She gazed at me with doe eyes. “For tainting my innocence, the innocence you’ve been obsessed with saving.”
She finally understood. “That’s right, my little Angel. I’m sorry, too.”
