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“Oh, don’t worry.”
I flinch, wincing in pain as Svetlana returns, half-carrying, half-dragging a nearly unconscious Gavan. She throws a wild smile at me as she staggers into the room under the dead weight of him slumped against her.
“He’s here, honey,” she spits. “And neither of you is going anywhere.”
Svetlana dumps Gavan on the couch facing me. I pull against the cuffs on my wrists, ignoring the searing pain as I snarl at her.
“What the fuck did you do to him?!”
She turns to glower at him. “Nothing less than he deserves, the little snake. Thebastardchild nobody but my idiot brother wanted. The cancer that ate at my life!”
I ignore the pain again as I slam against the chains holding me tight. Svetlana just smiles again.
“I gave him a neurotoxin, that’s all. Right now, it’s going to work on his heart.”
No…
Her lips curl demonically. “I’d say he has…I don’t know, maybe fifteen minutes left until it stops beating altogether?”
“NO!”
Svetlana laughs and laughs as I strain and sob against the cuffs.
“Of course, that clock speeds up if he’s…” Her eyes flash pure malevolence at me. “Exertinghimself.”
My lips curl into a sneer. “I know what you did to him, you fucking monster.”
She smiles even wider. “Oh, do you now?” Her smile drops. “Good. Then this won’t be a shock to you.”
Suddenly, she’s sliding onto Gavan’s lap. I scream in rage and pain, yanking at the chains as she turns to half look at me. Her lips curl cruelly before she leans close to his face and licks his neck slowly.
It’s like I’m being stabbed.
“Get the fuck away from him!!” I explode at her.
Svetlana just smiles even wider, her eyes gleaming with cold, sick cruelty.
“Oh, no-no-no, my dear,” she sneers. “No, you see, heknowsme. He remembers me and our time together fondly, I’m sure.” Her eyes draw to slits. “I bet he even thinks of me when he fucks you.”
Anguish rips from my throat as she chuckles, turning to look at a barely conscious, bleary-eyed Gavan.
“Don’t you, my sweet baby boy.”
She turns her gaze to me again. “Goodness, I bet he even fucked you in this very room. How….” She giggles. “Poetic.”
She turns back to Gavan, setting her gun down on the couch next to him as she starts to unbutton her blouse while hot, thick tears flow down my face.
“What do you say, baby boy? One more roll in the hay for old times’ sake before I leave you here to die together?” She sighs, undoing more of her blouse as she turns to grin at me. “That’s what this will look like, of course. After I’m done here. A lovers’ quarrel, ending in murder-suicide. How cliche and yet how fitting. And of course, there will be no more resistance to me taking the company.Andthe bank,” she hisses.
I try and yank at my bonds again, but the pain sends a fresh wave of blackness over me. It’s not just the pain. I’m weak. My shirt is soaked red. And when I look up, I see blood still pouring down my arm, and the blue of my veins through skin that’s unnaturally pale right now.
It’s not just the pain making my head swim.
I’m losing too much blood.
“I’m going to enjoy this, Eilish,” Svetlana purrs maliciously as she shrugs off her shirt. “I’ve never been an exhibitionist. But I think I’m going to enjoy making you watch me fuck him right in front of you.”
Something inside of me snaps, brutally. Maybe it’s partly the realization I’m about to die and have nothing to lose. But even more, it’s looking at this monster in front of me,once againabout to hurt the man I love so deeply.
