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

    handcuffs and sliding the

    look down, realizing that I am once

    and at his

    at him as he

    Fay,” Kent says, his voice even

    you let people walk all over you. My father

    power by

    logical.”

    into his

    waist, bringing his

    by the time I was eight.”

    and I watch as his

    pockets. “So when you tell me,” he continues, slowly

    to treat you as someone I trust,

    watch him, but my movement is limited, my neck reaching its breaking

    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

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    hear his voice very close to my

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    a whisper, sending a shiver down my spine as his breath

    I feel completely different than I did just minutes ago at the table. Then, I had the

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