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As Vito untied the dead asshole from the chair and heaved him up over his shoulder, her tear-filled gaze flitted back to the corpse, then back to me, over and over again.
Was she wondering what I’d do next? Was she realizing I held her life in my hands, that she was entirely at my mercy?
It was sick as shit that I got off on that kind of power, but there it was in the shock of heat that shot through my body and the image that filled my mind of the woman naked in my home… and entirely at my mercy.
“Come,signorina,” I said, nodding toward the apartment’s door. Not that I expected her to come willingly. But willing or not, I had no intention of standing around in this apartment indefinitely.
She ignored me, her blue-eyed gaze intent on the corpse now, even as Vito strode through the kitchen with a parting nod and disappeared through the kitchen doorway.
Her whole body was trembling. She had her hands at her sides, but she was eyeing the knife on the floor. I’m not sure if she realized it, but she was shaking so hard, she’d just cut herself with the damn thing. If I couldn’t leave marks on her body, then I sure as hell wasn’t going to stand here while she did.
“Enough,” I snapped, more harshly than I’d intended.
She jerked her gaze away from the knife and looked up at me, taking a step back at the same time.
“‘Come’? You think you can call me like a dog? You’re mad if you think I’m going to walk out of here with you,” she said while her eyes snapped defiantly. She held her hands out in front of her like she had any hope of fending me off.
I almost laughed.
“Mad? You think I’m insane?” I raised an eyebrow. “No,signorina.I prefer to think of myself as creatively misunderstood.”
She opened her mouth, then snapped it shut without saying a word.
“Here’s the deal,” I continued, my voice dripping with sinister charm. “You have two options. Option A: You come along with me, and we embark on a thrilling adventure filled with danger, intrigue, and a questionable moral compass. Option B: I send you on a different trip,” I paused—for dramatic effect. “To the land of eternal silence.”
“Go to hell, you monster,” she spat back with insolence etched into every line of her porcelain face. She clenched her hands into fists, so tight that her knuckles turned stark white.
“Monster?” I chuckled again. There was no humor in the sound. “You’ve seen nothing ‘monstrous’ yet, Heidi, but I assure you, I’m capable of things you couldn’t even begin to imagine.”
To this woman, I was the embodiment of evil, a heartless killer forcing her into a fate worse than death. And yet, she didn’t cower. She didn’t shrink away.
A surge of reluctant respect coursed through me. I admired her spirit, even if it was proving inconvenient at the moment.
But while she was brave, no one was unbreakable.
I took a step toward her, closing the distance between us. She smelled like vanilla and soft musk and something… clean that called up a potent desire to make her dirty.
I could see the urge to run in her eyes, but she stayed put, glaring up at me.
“I could kill you,” I spoke, slow and clear, emphasizing her vulnerable position. “I could do anything I wanted to you, and there isn’t anything you could do to stop me. Do you understand that?”
She needed to understand that I was in charge here. She needed to believe that her obedience equaled safety, and that disobedience would have consequences.
Her whole body shook. She hesitated, her fierce gaze faltering for a moment. The weight of her predicament finally settled on her shoulders, and the fire in her eyes flickered. She nodded her head.
“Then, tell me, why haven’t I hurt you?”
Her gaze skittered away and then back again. A furrow formed between her brows. “You want something from me.”
“Smart girl,” I said with a nod of approval.
“What is it you want?” she asked.
“For now, all I want is for you to come with me.”
“Where are you going to take me?” she asked like she wanted to weigh her options.
Pretty much anywhere was better than six feet under, wasn’t it?
