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“What did you do?” I bite out.
“Nothing.”
“Yeah,okay.” I retort sarcastically, turning away to stare out the window.
The trees pass in a blur. I imagine opening the door and throwing myself onto the asphalt. Maybe I’d die. Maybe I wouldn’t. If I lived, I wouldn’t escape. He’d catch me. Then he’d probably kill me.
The truth is, I don’t want to die.
I don’t want to live like this.
But I definitely don’t want to die.
“We’ll arrive at our destination in about twenty minutes. Or I can pull over, and you can relieve yourself on the side of the road.”
I scowl at my reflection in the window.
Relieve myself on the side of the road?Is this asshole for real?
“You would let your wife pee on the side of the road?”
“To keep you safe? Yes,” he answers easily.
“How are you keeping me safe?” I screech. “This has nothing tofuckingdo with me.”
“Watch your mouth, Bianca.”
“Fuck you, Vincent.”
“Bianca,” he warns.
“What are you going to do?” I push his shoulder, my anger claiming me. “Hit me?”
“What?” he breathes. “Why would I fucking hit you?”
“Isn't that what’s done? When we step out of line?”
“The enfeeble way your father deals with the grievances he has with your mother has nothing to do with me.” His hand clenches the steering wheel. “I prefer to use more inventive forms of punishment.”
I swallow the comeback on my tongue, my brain consumed with thoughts I shouldn’t have and definitely shouldn’t want.
“You’re repulsive.”
He barks out an unimpressed laugh. “Tell that to the lust in your eyes and the hard clench of your thighs.”
I relax the tension in my thighs, the clench I didn’t realize I was holding.
I move to speak, to refute his claim and deny what he so obviously knows, but I’d only embarrass myself further. So I shut my mouth, turning my body to give him my back, and resume staring out the window.
“I would never hurt you, Bianca. Not like that.”
Not like that.
“I don’t even know what that means.”
His fingers stretch outward before clutching the steering wheel once again. “Physically. I would never hurt you physically.”
I should feel reassured, but he just freely admitted that maiming my heart wasn’t off-limits.
