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I started to become afraid but his voice was rhyth His accent seeot inside and I saw all his workers were lined up There were other men there I rarely went to the factory but I kneho they were Father clapped his hands and shouted for a man named Roberto to come forward The poor man shook when he walked but tried to look proud I was so naïve I had no idea what my father wanted"

I knew exactly what he wanted I was biting un and told me that I was to shoot Roberto I asked hi cut uess I stood up and took the gun froun never fired It was eun froain and told me that a real man chose for himself, what he did and didn’t do He told me to take what I wanted in the world and let no ot slapped around by the world, I still needed to rateful what I assuun and shot Roberto He knew the chamber I fired was empty and the next was not Roberto died in front ofand I hated hed and pattedbusiness Business hat un He knew I had that in "

I was lost His story contradicted the backit with et close to hihed, "It was the first time I saw sorabbed some toilet paper to wipe my face I focused on the silver handle of the toilet and the sensation of the paper wiping my face I didn’t want inside of his world I didn’t want to knohat he had been through

He pressed his face against the back of the robe and kissed s you have over killing hiets easier I’m afraid" He left the bathroo the fat man, but about the fact I would have to kill hiet away He was fucking insane, like his father And his stories were creepy

I washed my face and brushed my teeth with the one toothbrush on the counter, I assu the hopelessness of the situation I slipped the belladonna inon the couch I walked past him, towards the bed in the smaller bedroom of the two I had noticed I curled into the sheets and closed my eyes Every inch of me hurt The weird bathroom-plane sex had more than likely left marks on my back The second tis, and the death of the fat man, and the loss of my children’s safetyin here? There is a huge bed in the master quarters," he asked I opened hed and rolled over, "Sleepy"

"Fine" I heard hied as he unzipped I tucked my arm under the pillow and turned my mind off I refused to let his war beyond a re I could do about I was his, for the ti he was on the far side of the bed, as far as he could get from me I shivered and rolled towards hi with intense body heat I wrappedhi?" he shouted

I shivered, "It’s cold in here"

He gave me an odd look and then put his arm out for me He wrapped around me, when I laid on it

Instantly, his hand took hed, "No," and pulled it back

"What?"

I shook my head, "I need to eat I’ hiit I snorted, "You’re cheerful in the reen flecks, "You are having a strange effect on me, Evie"

"Ditto," I said and wrappedwood and squeezed

Chapter Nine - A silver locket inthe covers up and sid; even in his sleep he disliked intimacy

Itbut fucking and working, and of course, talking about things that made me uncomfortable

I still didn’t understand why he had chosen to sleep in the sht about that more thanthe fat rown closer and closer,with every moment Three days of the spa-like bathrooedup Like the hibernation of irl I had once been, was eased the shit out of him with the belladonna Apparently, his reaction to it wasn’t the intended one He got relaxed and wanted slow, intense sex I had coue I blushed just watching hi myself not to want to like him, let alone desire hi me a look, "You’re like a cat Do you have to touchfrom it"

I nodded, "You’re warh, I can see my breath in here"

He rolled his eyes and sat up, sort of pushinghim squirm

He pulled his computer up onto his lap, "Is breakfast here?"

I shook my head, "I don’t know I haven’t left the rooht long like a girlfriend and then not act like one in theGo see"