Chapter 75

Chapter 75 Brooklyn

"Brooklyn?"

My head swivels towards the door as it pushes open, a dark head peeking from behind it. "Hudson," I say with a weak smile.

I'm sitting cross-legged on the ground, my hands still locked to the floor with the chain and padlock. Hudson frowns at me, stepping inside. "You seem...far better than I expected."

I give him a little shrug.

I've been down here alone for about ten minutes. Actually, I've been getting kind of bored.

"No real harm done," I hear myself say. And what's weird is that I actually mean it.

Hudson comes over to me, kneeling on the ground in front of me and producing a key from his pocket.

"It's just..." Hudson says as he works to free me. "I've seen people after my dad...teaches them a lesson." "Oh?" I ask. "And I'm different?"

"Well, yeah. You're just sitting here, kind of... peaceful? When he is flying around upstairs all pissed off?" The satisfaction I get from that is so powerful I have to stop myself from grinning ear to ear.

Aden wants to control me, but I have a say in this, too.

Hudson pauses for a moment and studies me. "What did you do to him?"

I could almost laugh.

What did I, Brooklyn, a nobody, do to the Mafia King?

I don't give anything away.

Hudson sighs and finishes unlocking the cuffs, setting me free.

wrists-which really

Hudson asks, slipping

floor. I

of how awful Hudson will think it is,

how much pleasure I took

of my

and give him a little

now. "I think he was just trying to scare me a little." Hudson looks

to go upstairs?" I

gestures towards the door, like he still can't figure

the room and down the

shoulder. "Do you want to get something to

I glance back, he's watching me as we

sharing a bottle of white

the room is still a complete wreck-furniture overturned, clothes and books thrown everywhere

mess as I

over my shirt and comforter while I chase the food with

en

still-full glass of wine

tell him, shrugging one shoulder. "Seriously, I mean, it was scary. But it

you to floor and yelled at you? And then hit

table first," I say, taking another bite.

at me, still shocked by my

say. "It's

sighs, looking down into

he has the chain in the

him, doubting that Aden's previous interrogations have gotten...well...that hot. But I don't

mean I'm like...made now? A made man? Officially

"No way," he

a little laugh. "If you were made, you'd be way more

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