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“I know.”
“Why did you do it?”
“Because I wanted her.”
He said it with so much force. As if I was Helena of Troy and he a Greek conqueror who took what or who he wanted. My skin broke out in goosebumps.
“You could’ve bought her from him.”
My throat tightened.
You could have bought her from him.
As if I was nothing more than a thing to be bought. Not a human being. What kind of barbarians talked like that?
“Maybe he would’ve sold her. Or maybe he would’ve used her for one of his insane little tests. Forget what you saw. Forget what you know. I will take care of it,” the blue-eyed devil said.
It. Not her.
This sounded a lot like I wasn’t going to live much longer, that, or he was going to let me go soon.
The one or the other.
I heard the door fall closed, then silence.
Was he staring at me? Thinking about what he would do to me?
I tried to move, tried to get him into my field of vision.
But I wasn’t strong enough.
I pulled on the ropes but cried out when a white-hot spear of pain shot up my arms.
“Stop fighting.”
He was next to me, behind me. Close, so close.
And I still couldn’t see him.
My breathing turned ragged.
And then he moved into my sight. Squatted down next to the bed and in front of my face, and the full force of his blue eyes hit me.
Rendered me frozen.
“You will not scream if I remove the gag.” His finger skimmed my skin alongside the gag. His voice was dark and low. Too quiet. He smiled, but his eyes remained cold, dark, and threatening.
“You will not try to escape when I remove your binds.”
He fisted my hair until my scalp prickled. Then leaned forward until his nose touched mine.
“If you scream, I’ll gag you again; if you escape, I’ll drag you right back, and if you get caught—” He leaned sideways and inhaled at my neck, like an animal sniffing its prey. Then his lips touched my ear, and my breath got stuck in my throat. “—You will go back to Uncle Fausto and his whip. Do you understand?”
He leaned back again, and I could finally catch my breath.
“I can’t guarantee your survival outside of this suite. If anyone finds out you’re here. That’s it. Do you understand?”
I closed my eyes, tried to buy myself some time to get my breathing and my erratic heartbeat under control again.
