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Being chased. Being corralled by someone who wanted to hurt me in the most malicious way.
My body lunged forward as impact struck my back, but I didn’t land on the ground as I’d expected. Instead, I swung around a hard body before it finally rested atop me, pinning me to the ground. The gravel bit into my elbows as I tried to claw my way out from under him. I had to get away. I couldn’t let this happen to me. Not again…
“Don’t touch me,” I screamed, thrashing.
I was an Accardi. I was trained. I was strong and capable. I could get out of this.
But I couldn’t breathe, and the feeling of his body above mine reminded me too much of another time and place. I couldn’tstop the tears from falling as the shaking intensified. I couldn’t steady myself enough to fight back, let alone fight backwell.
His body stiffened. “Are you—” he cut off his words, and a fraction of his weight lifted from me. “Why?”
I didn’t understand. I couldn’t. I could hardly fuckingbreathe, let alone listen to the man who had me so thoroughly trapped.
I’m strong,I chanted to myself.I’m strong.
Yet, despite it all, I couldn’t bring myself to move.
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Dante
It was all a game to her, so I would make it a game, too.
I gave chase for a moment before I dove and took her to the ground, rolling her body below mine before pinning her.
“Are you—”
I’d planned on asking if she was done trying to run from me when she turned her head to the side, and I saw tears oozing from her eyes. Her body trembled viciously beneath mine, and she thrashed wildly and ineffectively.
I’d thought this was a game, but something about this had become real for her.
Something hadterrifiedher, and it wasn’t me.
She hadn’t looked like this once in the entire day I’d spent with her. Not when I had my hand around her throat. Not when I had her alone in my bedroom. She’d shown small snippets of fear, but nothing this real.
But now, something was different.
“Why?”
“Get off me,” she begged.
I didn’t move, but I grabbed her arm and flipped her on her back, forcing her to face me. Holding her chin, I examined every inch of her face. She tried jerking away, but I held her firmly.
“Why are you so fucking scared?” I asked.
“Are you serious?” she shouted, trying to push away from me. “You killed two men this morning, and now you’re telling me that I owe you. You insinuated that you’d force me to be a prostitute.”
I pursed my lips. “No, that’s not what scared you,” I said. “If it was, you would have reacted this way earlier. What about prostitution has you this terrified? You know damn well I don’t plan on selling you to those monsters.”
“How would I know that?” she shot back.
“Because I told you so.” She tried jerking her face from where I held her again, and as she thrashed her body, I became keenly aware of the way I straddled her and where my cock rested against her.
“I’m not going to lose my virginity because of a stupid debt,” she spat.
That declaration jarred me. Her virginity?
“You’re a virgin?” I asked.
