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“Yeah, you’re going to let me go,” she snaps. That’s enough of that. I move quickly, wrapping my hand around her throat and walking her backward until she hits the wall.
“You know what you’re going to do, Little Lamb? You’re going to be quiet. You’re going to stand here quietly and listen. That’s it. Do you understand me?” Her eyes widen at how I talk to her, but it needs to be done. She needs to understand that now isn’t the time to grow a backbone. Now’s the time to listen and understand. I raise my eyebrow as if to ask her if she understands. She nods her head.
“Enough of this, Ares. I’ll find you a suitable woman,” my father says. I step away from Sage and release my hold before turning to him.
“Will you? I don’t think so. I will kill every woman you put in my path, Father.”
“That’s nonsense, Ares. Why would you?”
“Because I can. You want an heir, then I will pick the woman I shall have it with.” I watch him look at Sage once more before shaking his head.
“We don’t have a deal, Ares. She’s not good enough,” he tells me. Rage shakes me to my core. How dare he say my little lamb isn’t good enough to have children with. She’s perfect. She’s everything a fucking man could want in a woman.
“You’re wrong about that.”
“I’m done arguing. Do away with her, Ares, or I will.” That’s the end of the discussion. That’s all he has to say as he turns and walks to his bar, pouring himself a drink. I look at Juno, who has also removed his mask, but he just shakes his head. He knew this was going to happen; he warned me. I swallow hard and grab the handcuffs again, jerking Sage. No one speaks as we leave and climb back in the car. Sage sits in the seat, looking out the window as I didn’t bother to blindfold her this time. Juno climbs in the passenger seat and looks over at me.
“Now what?”
“The plan doesn’t change,” I reply.
“Even after that?”
“Even after that,” I tell him. I pull out of my father’s driveway and head back to my place. Juno climbs out when I park the car, but I don’t. I remain in the car, thinking about what I will do next. I watch Juno walk inside as I look in the rearview mirror at Sage. She stares back at me. Her ice-blue eyes shine with anger and fear.
“Let me go,” she says. I shake my head. There’s no way in hell.
“You’re mine. Remember that night in the pool?” I ask her. Her lips part as she looks at me and shakes her head.
“You don’t know me.”
“I know you, Little Lamb. More than you know,” I inform her.
“Why do you want me? I’m nothing special.”
“That’s where you’re wrong. You don’t see what I see, Sage. I see you. I see what I want and what I’m going to keep.”
“What do you mean? How could you want me?” Tired of hearing the same thing, I fly out of the car and rip the back door open, dragging her out. She cries in pain from the cuffs cutting into her flesh, but I don’t care. Not right now.
I stomp up the front steps and in the front door as Juno watches me.
“You good?” he asks.
“Fuck off,” I tell him as I drag Sage through the room and up the stairs, not stopping until we reach my room. I shove the door open and drag her inside, slamming the door behind us. Then I walk her over to the floor-length mirror hanging on the wall. I don’t bother removing the cuffs. I move straight to her shirt, ripping the front of it open and tearing it from her body. Sage startles and a gasp rips from her lips, but I move to her jeans next. I tear them down her legs, forcing her to step out of them. When she’s in nothing but her bra and underwear, I groan.
“Look at yourself,” I order. She shakes her head in denial, but I stand behind her, grabbing her face and forcing her to look. Tears fill her eyes as she stares at herself in the mirror. “Everything about you is perfect, Little Lamb. Everything.”
“How can you even say that?”
“Because I’m looking at you.”
“You’re not.”
“I am. I’m looking at everything in front of me, and there’s nothing about you I don’t like, Sage.” She looks harder at herself, taking herself in. Her eyes move down the mirror, taking her whole body in.
“I’m not skinny,” she whispers.
“I don’t want you to be.”
