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And he couldn’t since the bars were too narrow for anyone’s hand to pierce through.
Still, she watched him fearfully as he raged. “I wanted to kill you at first. How dare a slave keep secrets from her master? But the more I thought about it, the more right it felt. You, me and a baby. We’ll start over, Jewel. We’ll build our own empire. And you will be my queen.”
“I don’t want you,” she said. It was probably stupid to anger him when he clearly had the upper hand, but Jewel was done.
Done with the begging and the pleading and the torture. She wanted nothing to do with Kross and if death was the only way to protect her baby, well, then she’d just have to beg her Maker for mercy.
Kross chuckled dryly. “I know what you’re doing.”
“You’re ugly,” she hissed. “All those surgeries you’ve done to look perfect, they just make you look fake.”
“Shut up.”
“And you’re a horrible lover. Don’t think I haven’t seen the way women fake their pleasure, the way they pack up quickly so they can leave after it’s over.”
Kross banged a hand against the door.
Jewel jumped but kept going. “I knew it from that night. I understood you, Kross. Why you lure women into your bed, why you forced me to watch. You know you’re worth nothing, you know no one would want you when they saw who you really were, that’s why—”
An inhuman roar tumbled from his lips. He banged his fists against the door and it bent in.
Jewel’s eyes bugged.
Kross swiveled away from the window so all she could see was the back of his hair. Her breathing thickened. She tasted fear.
Finally, he turned back around, an eerie smirk on his lips. “That was dangerous, Jewel. I almost lost it.”
She blinked, her bones shaking. “Let me go or kill me, Kross. Pick one.”
“You’ll find a mat in the box at the far right. Get comfortable. You’re not leaving this room until you come to me. Willingly.” Kross wiped his face with the back of his hand and left her.
Jewel sank into a shriveling ball.
She was back in Kross’s clutches.
Again.
26
Finn gave up on chasing Jewel and reluctantly headed back to Sweet Treats. When he stepped inside, he saw that Carrie had arrived. Nolan was in the corner stuffing his face with pastries and smiling from ear to ear.
“You’re back,” Nolan said when he saw Finn. He scrambled to his feet and brushed his shirt down. “Everything okay? You took a while.”
Joana glanced past him, her eyebrows crinkled. “Where’s Jewel?”
“She…”
Carrie wielded the spatula she’d been holding and pointed it in his direction. “Why do you look so guilty?”
“We had a misunderstanding.”
“I told you she wouldn’t react well if you told her the truth,” Nolan hissed.
Finn rubbed his temple. He didn’t need Nolan’s ‘I told you so’. Finn knew he’d messed things up with Jewel. Big time.
“Where the hell is my friend, Finn?” Carrie approached, thrusting the spatula like a sword. “I’m not going to ask twice.”
“She disappeared.”
