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I was exhausted. Not too tired to understand that someone who will shove an electric prod inside a girl is more than capable of killing her. What the fuck, he'd told me he wanted to destroy things. And there were a limited number of girls. Of course he killed them.
But there was time.
That idea brought me upright, out from under Lettie's soothing hands which were starting to feel a little too familiar. "You said he goes to bed at dawn?" It was damn close now.
Nikki looked out the window. "About another twenty minutes. Sleeps like the dead. He's hard of hearing, though he won't admit it. So speak clearly and a little more loudly than usual because he gets really mad and he will hurt you for making it seem like he's old."
I allowed myself to smile.
Nikki looked at me considering, then smiled back. Lettie and Mia joined in. And then we were all laughing, too hard to stop, at the idea of the mummified Mr. B becoming annoyed at anyone suggesting he was older than mountains. Older than God! Older than the Universe! So. Fucking. Old!
When we calmed down, the sky had gone green. I wanted more than anything to sneak out of the room with its simple lock. "Don't you think information might help? Information is power," I said, meeting eyes that still watered from the laughter.
"I'm with you," Lettie said and the other two nodded. "But don't get your hopes up. Shelf life here is about three months, from what I know. Because the girls here before me?" She gestured around the room, then made a poof! Gesture with her hands.
Two months.
And gone.
And suddenly that didn't seem like much time at all.
"So can't we work to change that?" I asked. I couldn't share who I was. A couple hours, a couple pieces of chocolate, and a semi-inappropriate ass massage didn't make us best friends. Any one of them might turn me in for better treatment. From the sound of it I'd probably be willing to betray a confidence or two to avoid having an electrified dildo shoved inside me.
Tomorrow night, I thought, finding myself damned near asleep anyway.
That's when Nikki said, "If you really want to go find information, I'm with you. Tomorrow night. But I'm with you."
Which made me both think they were relatively assured there were no bugs in the harem and that since she brought it up first, maybe I was partially protected from being ratted out.
"Me, too," Lettie said. "The outside doors and windows are all alarmed."
"Of course they are," I said absently.
"But inside isn't," Mia said. She sounded pale and scared and she hadn't yet said she was with us. But then she surprised me. "I can get us to the kitchen no problem."
My brows shot up.
Nikki laughed. "Mia forages for us."
"I've never gone anywhere else, but I can do that." She seemed to be psyching herself up.
"Okay, then," I said, not wanting to add the pressure of my gratitude just yet. "Maybe we should all get some sleep."
That didn't seem likely. But it was exactly what we did.
