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“Torture?”
“Not quite.”
“… You’ve fucked her, haven’t you?”
His words are like a playful slap to the face that might have had a little too much force behind it.
“And so what if I have? She’s my captive, isn’t she?”
I’m almost embarrassed to be this transparent.
“Was she pleased with your decision to fuck her, or was it a one-sided choice?”
“She loved it,” I assure him, thinking more with my ego than with my mind.
“That’s good to hear.”
Sitting up straight in my seat, I stare over at my brother. Parts of him are still a mystery to me.
“Why is that good to hear? We’re both monsters, you and I, how she feels shouldn’t matter.”
“But it does… doesn’t it?”
“Shit,” I curse, rubbing a hand along my thigh. “Can I pretend that I didn’t just hear about Mary’s pregnancy? I’m not sure it’s worth this conversation.”
“It’s an important conversation.”
“It’s a conversation I need to have with myself, and no one else.”
“That’s not true,” Roman says, softly shaking his head. “We’re all in this together.”
Sometimes, I forget that he’s my older brother. He’s lived such a different life that he can seem naïve when it comes to certain matters that I’ve always taken for granted. But his harsh life experience has also given him a certain tough wisdom that I find hard to ignore.
“And what do you think I should do?” I ask, only half-sarcastically.
“I think you should listen to your heart.”
Fuck. That was the last thing I was expecting my fearsome, former assassin-slave brother to say.
“Parenthood is already making you soft.”
“Not soft,” Roman smiles. “Smart.”
“My heart is stupid as fuck,” I grumble, the idiotic organ pounding behind my chest. “It shouldn’t be trusted.”
“Everyone’s heart is stupid as fuck,” Roman laughs. “But somehow, it always knows where to go, and what to do. Like baby turtles finding the ocean.”
Raising an eyebrow in his direction, I study the man who’s becoming more foreign to me with every word.
“… Baby turtles?”
“Use that on Sophia,” he smiles. “It will make her want to fuck you again.”
“Who said she gets a choice on whether or not we fuck?”
“You don’t need to keep acting so tough around me, Leo. I know you are king. It doesn’t matter that you’re my younger brother. I follow you. Just don’t hide from me.”
Looking back out into the rain, I catch my hazy reflection in the window.
