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“You’re going to marry her.”
“What? How?” My knees almost gave out. I clung to my cane. “She thinks I’m dead. Remember?”
“Tomorrow, I’m going to arrange men to go and collect her.”
“Fuck no, you’re not.” I tripped away from him, my limping worse as my balance grew scrambled. “Leave her the fuck alone. We had a deal.”
“A deal that I’m beginning to think is also a lie.”
“I don’t want her anywhere near this place or you,” I seethed. “Forget you even know she exists.”
“Just how long have you been chewing on your true thoughts, Aslan? I thought we’d erased all those feelings. You have no more tattoo to cling to. Nothing left to need. I’ve given you everything you could ever dream of and this is how you repay me?”
“If you go after Neri, I’ll kill you myself.”
“And there it is.” He toasted me and swallowed the last mouthful of raki. “The truth. Finally.”
“Truth? What truth?”
“Listen to me, Son, and listen to me well. I will bring Neri here. You can keep her just like you’ve always wanted. I’ll arrange a nice wedding for you both, and you can decide how much she will learn of our family enterprise. You can keep her in the dark and on her back or you can have her rule beside you, it makes no matter to me.” He stalked toward me, backing me into the wall. “And in return, you will fuck your new bride until you knock her up like you’ve done once before. You will get her pregnant again. You will pop out another child and another and another. As long as you obey me, Aslan, the mother of your children will not be harmed. But betray me again, try to lie to me again, and I will slit her throat from ear to ear. If you even think about going behind my back, I’ll have Çetin flay her alive. Do. You. Hear. Me?”
My ears rang. “I-I—” I swallowed hard. “What do you mean...get her pregnant again?”
He patted my cheek, chuckling. “Smile, Aslan. You’re going to get what you miss most of all. I’m giving you what you need. And I’m not even going to strap you into the chair again, even though I suspect you greatly need another session. I won’t hurt you again because I see now that Neri is the key to your obedience above everything else. Pity I realised that too late. But at least your little stunt tonight proved that once she is here, you will behave yourself. I know you will. Because you value her life over yours.”
I couldn’t keep up. I felt electrocuted by his words, just as excruciating as the machine. “I-It wasn’t a stunt. I truly can’t fuck anyone—”
“Only Neri.”
“Even her. I never touched her. I can’t—”
“Are you not listening, Aslan? You can’t lie your way out of this. You can’t try to convince me that you’re a sad little virgin who’s always had a cock that doesn’t work. You can’t hide the truth.”
“What truth?”
“The truth that you and Neri had sex.”
“You can’t possibly know that unless you had cameras in our fucking bedroom—”
“I have evidence.” He grinned. “Want to see?” Putting his empty glass down, he went to the bookcase, tilted a particular leather-bound volume, and revealed a safe tucked in the shelves. Inputting the code, he opened it, yanked out a photo, and marched back toward me.
I stood by the cold fireplace.
I couldn’t fucking move.
He grabbed my hand that wasn’t wrapped around my cane and shoved the photo into it.
“Here.”
I raised the picture.
And every smothering imprisonment, every painful shock, every slice, dice, cut, and flay disintegrated.
The conditioning he’d wrapped me in.
The reprogramming he’d forced into my brain.
It broke, smoked, burned to the ground, and I remembered.
