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He’d electrocuted me, like before.
I’d endured, like I always did.
I submitted, like I’d been trained.
But a fractured part of me, a carefully hidden and hating part, tasted the first flavour of mutiny.
I didn’t like it.
I fought against the whispers slowly returning to my mind.
The daydreams of a girl I wasn’t supposed to remember.
The longing for a home that was forbidden.
I wouldn’t jeopardise my existence by letting myself wake up from this sleep he’d trapped me in, but...I also didn’t know if I could stop it.
Only pain could do that.
The pain of my missing limb.
The pain of the buckles around my thigh and the clunky carved foot that was shoved inside a polished shoe Cem had insisted was used to hide the fact that his son and heir was damaged.
Damaged by him.
Hacked into pieces by him.
I knew he disliked that I wasn’t whole.
That I was disabled, for use of a better word.
But it hadn’t stopped him from publicly announcing me as his next in line.
I wore the scar on my palm to prove it.
He’d given me power.
But with that power came retribution, and if I ever stepped out of the fog of obedience, a bullet would fly into my brain as quickly as the one I’d sent into the stranger I’d just dispatched.
His guards were loyal.
His guards were fucking everywhere.
“I’m fine, baba,” I muttered as I followed him outside. Glancing at the full moon above, we were ushered into a black SUV. Guards climbed into the three SUVs in front and behind us before we pulled out in a snaking convoy.
My fist curled around my cane as I stabbed it between my legs. The roaring lion glowered at me in the gloomy car interior. “Are we going home?”
Cem shot me a look where we sat side by side in the backseat. He typed something on his phone; I tore my eyes away from the glowing screen.
I’d been given everything I could ever want.
I knew the pins and passwords to Cem’s every account.
He’d taken me to his bank manager and had my name listed on every document required for access and transfers, and he’d even amended his will so I, and only I, inherited his almost billion-dollar empire.
He gave me his trust by giving me his business.
Yet he never gave me access to a laptop, phone, or tablet.
