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

    of my handcuffs

    a perfect circle. I look down, realizing

    trapped, and at

    gaze up at him as he stands

    world, Fay,” Kent says, his voice

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

    family’s power by being kind,

    logical.”

    hands into his pockets, his most

    waist, bringing his face close

    dead by the time

    and I watch as his hands clench into

    his pockets. “So when you tell

    you as someone I trust, without having earned it…”

    head to watch him, but my movement is limited, my neck reaching its

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

    like a fool.”

    forward, my heartbeat and breath quickening. I can’t see him, don’t know where

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    whisper, sending a shiver down my spine as his breath

    feel completely 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 my words,

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