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“I won’t repeat myself. Get out!”
She sighs. “I am afraid that I can’t do that. I’m not leaving until you have dinner.”
I grab her neck and push her against the wall. She barely blinks as my hands wrap around her neck.
“Your life is mine, and I can take it when I please! Don’t you forget that,” I grit out.
She struggles to speak and I realize that my hands are gripping her far more tightly than I had intended. My heart skips a beat as I loosen my grip.
“Alyssa?” I say softly, moving my hands to grab her shoulders. “I—I didn’t mean to hold you that tight. Do you want some—some water? Fuck!” I curse, looking down at her.
She shakes her head, her hand going to her throat. When she casts her gaze up at me, she looks sad, but no less determined than earlier today.
“Can you stop being so scary and come eat some food?” she whispers before coughing.
I walk over to the desk and sit down, looking at her carefully.
She pulls out another chair and sits beside me, watching me as I begin to eat my food slowly. She nods in approval as I try to slow my heart rate down after the terror I felt at thinking that I had actually strangled her. Why does she make me want to possess her heart and her mind, as well as control her actions? I’ve never cared about a woman like this, and the fact that she causes me to act this much out of character scares me.
I can’t decipher the emotions that are hiding behind the calm look on her face as she watches me eating. She’s just sitting there, looking beautiful. Her reddish, chestnut hair gleaming in the evening light, her skimpy clothing showing off far too much of her skin.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was hallucinating, and she wasn’t even real.
“I guess my job here is done,” she says when I lean back away from my plate. She gets up and begins to gather up the items on the tray. I slowly wrap my arms around her waist.
She stays still, not reacting in any way.
“I have hurt you so much, haven’t I?”
I hear her inhale sharply. “You own me, and you can do as you please with me. It’s not in my place to make any complaints.”
I look into her face, and her eyes are brimming with an emotion that I can’t read. My brothers are right. I have become a weak man.
I feel her warm hands move to my back, and she slowly begins to stroke her hands up and down.
“Do you want us to get some fresh night air together?” she asks, meeting my eyes. She doesn’t let me answer. She pulls away from my hands and reaches out to hug me.
I get up without a word, and I follow her. We walk down the hallway, getting stares from the guards as they see our hands linked. Just as we get to the door, she stops by a guard at the door.
“Can I get some handcuffs, please?” she asks.
The guard glances at me, and I nod, fighting to hide my surprise.
He hands her the cuffs from his belt, and she turns to me. She hands the cuffs to me and stretches out her hands.
“I ran off the first time under the cover of darkness. I wouldn’t trust me that easily if I were you.”
I look down at the handcuffs and then at her big green eyes before I put the handcuffs around her wrists.
We walk into the cool night breeze with her hands cuffed in front of her.
“I spied the prettiest spot from my window. Let’s go there.”
She sounds bright and cheery. Maybe she has always been this way. Maybe this was how she was before I swooped in and ruined her life.
I follow her past the garden to the backyard, past the courtyard, and then she finally stops at a long stretch of land at the back of the house. This area is acres upon acres of land that I haven’t quite figured out what to do with. So, I turned it into a lawn for the moment.
She points up, and I see that we have the most beautiful view of the moon. “Finally,” she sighs, plopping down on the grass.
