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For you. Dry your hair and put it on. We’re going out.
We’re going out? The card nearly slips out of my hand, my heart skipping a beat. Silus wants to take me out somewhere? As in, out of his home? Out of this stupid room? Into the real freaking world?
A part of me knows I should be skeptical, maybe even apprehensive of what this might mean, but the bigger part of me is simply excited to go out and be somewhere else. With Max and Silus as my only company, my world has gotten infinitely smaller since I’ve been here.
But I have been good. I haven’t tried to run. This must be Silus’s way of thanking me.
I still don’t see Silus as I return to the bathroom to blow-dry my hair. It’s like he’s giving me space, maybe even testing me—and I’m not going to fail that test. Hell, I’ll get as dolled up as I can with what I have and rock that black dress.
Once my hair is dry, I pair the dress with a pair of black heels Silus bought for me in the beginning. I don’t wear a bra with it; the fabric is a little loose on the chest, so it isn’t as if my bra-less state will be immediately obvious. I go with a pair of lacy black panties—not because I anticipate Silus, you know, seeing them, but because this way there will be no panty lines on the dress.
I don’t know how long it takes me to get ready, but once I’m done, I leave my room, intent on finding Silus and telling him I’m ready to go. I walk out of the hallway and emerge into a large, open-concept living room that is directly attached to a dining room and then, on the far side of the space, the kitchen.
“Hello?” I ask, the condo quiet. “I’m ready. Where are you?”
“Here.” Silus’s voice comes from a different hall on the other side of the living room, and he steps out to reveal his all-black ensemble. A freshly-shaven face, his black hair neatly slicked back. As much as I don’t want to admit it, my breath catches when I see him.
Fuck. I forgot how hot he is.
His black eyes twinkle as he approaches me. “I must admit, I did wonder if you’d try to run once you saw me nowhere nearby.” He reaches me, lets his gaze fall to my feet and then slowly work its way up my body, taking in the way the dress hugs my hips before adding, “I’m glad you chose not to.”
I swallow hard before I say, “I told you I wouldn’t run.”
“Yes, but often what people say and what people do are two very different things.” He pauses before he tells me, “You look amazing in that dress, Thea.” Notes of hunger lace with each word, and it’s damn near impossible to ignore the way my body reacts instantly.
The guy is hot as hell, okay? And with the way he’s looking at me right now, like he could devour me whole, like he wants to be the greediest son of a bitch in the world when it comes to me, almost makes me forget that he’s my captor.
“Thanks,” I’m slow in saying. “You, uh, don’t look too bad yourself.” The words are out of me before I can stop them, and I immediately want to smack myself. How lame could I be?
The smile that graces Silus’s face after that fills me with heat, and he offers a hand to me. “Shall we?” he asks, his black eyes twinkling.
Might as well get it over with.
I nod and slip my hand inside his, and as his fingers curl around my hand, I fight the way I want to shiver and lean in closer to him. Being attracted to him is one thing, but if I didn’t know any better, I’d say I have a full-blown crush on the guy.
Obviously, nothing good could ever come from something like that.
Silus brings me out of his place and into an idling car, where he only lets my hand go so he can open the back door for me and let me crawl into the backseat first. Once his large frame is inside, he nods at his driver and we start moving.
I watch the scenery go by for a minute—other buildings full of condos or apartments; it’s not a part of the city I know that well. This area is for the people with money. The streets and sidewalks are clean and without a blemish, no litter anywhere. No overgrown weeds poking out in between old cracks in the concrete.
“I’m surprised you didn’t put a blindfold on me or something,” I mutter, sluggish in drawing my gaze away from the window and bringing it to Silus—who, to my chagrin, is solely focused on me. Not the world around us. Not his driver in the front. Not even on himself.
Just me. He stares at me like I’m the only thing that exists.
“Why should I?” Silus tilts his head as he studies me. “I don’t think you’ll run unless you know where your brother is, so knowing where you’re being kept is information that would be pointless to hide from you.”
Oh, I guess it makes sense when you say it like that.
“Where are we going?” The note only said we were going out, not where we were going. In a nice dress like this, I can safely assume it’s nowhere familiar.
Then again, it isn’t like I ever had much time to go out and party, to have fun and live life. It’s always been me and Max struggling to make ends meet. Neither of us had time for friends or money for getting wasted every weekend.
“Dinner.”
I sound dumbfounded when I ask, “We’re getting dinner?”
“We are going to my favorite restaurant, where the chef will be all ours for the night. The courses are already chosen. It’s going to be just you and I, Thea.” Amusement flickers across his handsome face. “Is something wrong?”
