Chapter 89

Kent moves around the table, and to my surprise, he takes a key out of his pocket and slides it under the metal table. A mechanism snaps, and I feel a sudden give to my handcuffs as they are

released from the table.

Before I can pull away, Kent grabs the chain between the cuffs, taking control of my actions. He says nothing as he starts moving towards the center of the room, pulling me roughly along with him. When we reach a spot where a short chain is bolted to the floor, with an open padlock at the end, Kent stops.

He slowly brings my manacled hands close to his face, my body pulled close to his. “On your knees, Fay,” he says, firm..

My mouth hangs open in disbelief. Why? I try to speak, to question his demand.

“I said,” he says, his brows knitting cruelly together. “On your

knees.”

Slowly, my earlier courage abandons me, and I begin to sink to my knees as Kent lowers his hand to allow me to do so. I find myself resting there, my knees on the cold cement floor, my arms. stretched above my head, looking up at him with wide eyes.

Kent lowers one knee to the ground, maintaining eye contact with

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  1. me. Then, slowly, he raises the chain from the ground, wrapping it

    links of my handcuffs and

    I look down, realizing that I am

    contained, trapped, and

    at him

    his voice even and low, “you don’t

    if you let people walk all over you. My father tried that

    maintain this family’s power by being kind, and fair, and

    logical.”

    hands into his pockets, his most controlled

    and bends at the waist, bringing

    the

    I

    “So when you tell me,” he continues,

    as someone I trust, without having earned

    movement is limited, my neck

    asking me, then, Fay,” he says, taking another step, “to act

    like a fool.”

    the handcuffs won’t let me. I stare forward, my heartbeat and breath quickening. I can’t see him, don’t

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    whisper, sending a shiver down my spine as his breath

    different than I did just minutes ago at the table. Then, I had the power, the information he wanted, the ability to provoke him with

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