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

    the links of my handcuffs and sliding the padlock

    I look down, realizing that I am once

    trapped, and at his mercy.

    at him as he

    world, Fay,” Kent says, his voice

    over you.

    family’s power by

    logical.”

    his pockets,

    at the waist, bringing his face close to

    by the time I

    and I watch as his hands clench into

    pockets. “So when you

    me, “to trust you, to treat you as someone

    movement is limited, my

    he says, taking another step, “to act

    like a fool.”

    but the handcuffs won’t let me. I stare forward, my heartbeat and breath quickening. I can’t see him, don’t know where he is. I listen intently,

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    I hear his voice very

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    is a whisper, sending a shiver down my spine as his breath brushes against my earlobe.

    table. Then, I had the power, the information he wanted, the ability to provoke him with my words,

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