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“Why did you do it, Dad? Why go to such extreme measures for a kidney?”
“I couldn’t lose you, sweetheart,” he whispers.
“I made peace with dying,” I say, my voice still thick with tears.
“I wasn’t…I couldn’t just watch you die!” he exclaims.
“So you got a kidney on the black market? Surely, you know how they get most of the organs. Innocent people suffer and die to supply the market.”
“I didn’t think about that,” he admits. “Dr. Bentall told me he could get a kidney, and I didn’t ask any questions. I just wanted to save you.”
“At the expense of a twenty-year-old man! His life had barely started.” I suck in a breath to try and calm down.
Finally, being able to express my anger and heartache, it’s hard to keep my temper under control.
“What is done is done,” Dad says, making my eyes widen on him.
“It’s far from done,” I almost shout. I slap my hand against my chest. “I’m a freaking prisoner. For the rest of my life.”
Dad’s face crumbles under the strain of knowing he failed me as a father.
“I’m trying to think of a way to get us out of this mess.”
“Us?” I hiss. “There’s no us. I’m the one spending day in and day out in that penthouse with a monster.”
I move farther away from Dad and close my eyes as I suck in deep breaths so I can calm down. I don’t have long before I have to return to the penthouse, and who knows when I’ll see Dad again.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper.
“It’s okay, sweetheart. I deserve your anger.”
Suddenly, a man screams in pain, and the sound has me jerking with fright.
Dad and I stand frozen, staring at each other with wide eyes.
That did not sound good at all.
A howl of pain fills the air, and I quickly move to Dad’s side and grab his arm.
Dad shakes his head before looking at me again with urgency filling his eyes. “I’ll find a way to get you back. I promise.”
“I think I have a way, but it’s risky,” I whisper, scared someone will overhear us.
“What?”
“I think I can make him care about me.”
Dad immediately shakes his head. “No! No, don’t do that. It’s too dangerous. A man like him will rape you if he thinks you’re interested in him.”
Yeah, I’ve thought about that as well, and honestly, I’m willing to sleep with Renzo if it means I’ll get my freedom.
“I’ll be careful,” I say. When Dad shakes his head again, I remind him, “Renzo hasn’t hurt me, Dad, and I don’t think he’ll force himself on me. He seems to be softening toward me. I really think my plan will work.”
An excruciating, pain-filled wail tears through the air, making us freeze again.
Someone’s being killed.
Jesus.
