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I don’t know who they’re talking about, but I feel for the person. “I might have to take you up on the offer.” Nixon snickers. “She’s had a few brats now that have ruined her body. But I got to say, I would enjoy having the little girl she gave birth to. She would be a good collection, and Collins got himself dead because he’s an idiot.”
“This is true,” Perrin states, laughing. “If I get my hands on her for you, I will let you know. Besides, she’s married now to a man I want to hurt more than anything. He needs to pay, as do the rest of them.”
“And what is it that they need to pay for?”
It’s a question I don’t understand, and neither do I understand Perrin’s answer.
“That is for me to know. There’s nothing that will stop me from getting what I want, and I swore a long time ago that I would have what I want. Nothing is going to get in the way of that. It’s why I have my sweet Lily here,” he says, stroking my hair once more before gripping it in his hands. “See, she shares the blood of the enemy, and I do enjoy the fact of this. More so that none of them know she exists.”
Nixon throws his head back and laughs. A moment later, he straightens in his chair and sobers. “If I were to give you the papers for Sloane, I’ll take the next shipment you have coming in. I hear it’s got a few women that would be worth a fortune.”
“You have a deal,” Perrin states, not arguing over a shipment. This is something he never allows. He’s not one for giving over property.
This Sloane must be very valuable to him. I fear if he gets his hands on her or the little girl they mention, their fate will be worse than mine.
Perrin grips my hair, turns me, and I push back all thoughts of this Sloane woman because nothing can be worse than my life. Not when I’m a slave to a man like this.
* * *
“Lily, hello, earth to Lily,” Tiny murmurs, waving a hand in my face. “Are you okay?”
Blinking, I shake my head, hoping to clear it, but something about the memory is bugging me. “I don’t think so,” I whisper.
“What’s wrong?” Nora asks, watching me closely.
“I was just thinking of something,” I explain, rubbing my hands up and down my arms.
“About what?” Tiny looks at me closely, almost assessing me as she reaches for my hand, stops my movement, and takes it in hers. “We’re here for you. To talk. To listen. Anything. It’s what we do. We’re friends, but we’re also family. This club it’s what we all are. We support each other and give one another what they need when they need it.”
I nod and sigh heavily. They’d all told me what they’d been through, and I know they wouldn’t lie about something like that. I mean, who would make up what they endured? “A memory just came to me. It’s nothing really, well it’s something. I guess you can say it was a day in the life that I lived.”
“What was it about?” Nora takes my other hand.
Taking a deep breath, I tell them about the memory. About Nixon. About the conversation. And the last about the girl they were talking about. I even tell them about what Perrin made me do while Nixon watched on.
Tiny sucks in a breath, her bottom lip wobbling, eyes wide, tears shimmering in them.
“What?” I ask, unsure if it was a good idea to share so much.
“This isn’t good,” Nora whispers.
“It was something that I lived through,” I utter softly.
“I know it is,” Tiny breathes, squeezing my hand. “But what you just said, what they were talking about, it was me. My name is Sloane, and the man who raised me sold me to a man named Nixon.”
All the air in my lungs seems to vanish and I can’t breathe. My head goes light, and if Nora and Tiny weren’t holding my hands, I’d surely fall.
“We need to tell Chains and the others,” Tiny states.
“I can’t.” The words are not more than a breath, and tears sting my eyes. I don’t want to tell any of them in detail what I went through. I don’t want Speed to hear the horrors of it all.
What will he think of me then?
“They need to know, Lily,” Nora urges. “This could help them.”
“Help us with what?”
A small scream slips out at the voice that comes up behind us. Together, the three of us turn to find not only Speed but Breaker, Chains, and the others who’d gone out with them. My eyes go from Speed to Breaker, who’d been the one to speak up.
