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“Maya?” she asked like she knew me. “I thought… I never thought I'd see you,” she added.
Digging my nails in my palms harder, I frowned at her. “Do I know you?”
She shook her head. “No, but I know you. I mean… I don’t really know you,” she kept mumbling nonsense. Finally, she giggled nervously and pointed to the door on my right. “You must come to visit Master Wyatt’s room. Go in there. That’s how I know you,” she said and shaking my head I walked toward the door.
Circle 9.
When I turned the doorknob, I heard her say, “I’m Nikki, by the way.” But I didn’t turn to her. Instead, I walked inside.
The room was dark. Dark except the dim lights coming from the picture frames on the wall. Those soft blue lights reminded me of a freezer. They gave the room dim lighting. Enough to see around, but not enough to make out the details.
I didn’t care about the details, though. The only thing I focused on was the pictures on the walls.
Twenty photos.
Twenty photos where I smiled or looked mischievously at the camera.
This was Zeke’s special room. This was Circle 9… the deepest hell of Dante’s Inferno.
CHAPTER 27
ZEKE
“Maya?” I called out after her, running behind her to catch her. She was fast. She was always fast.
I looked around and finally headed for the stairs when I heard the murmurs coming from there.
Nikki was looking at me with wide eyes.
“Where?” I asked.
r /> She pointed to Circle 9 and my insides clenched with anticipation. Pushing the door open, I let my eyes adjust to the darkness.
I felt everything all at once when I saw her in the middle of the room, the room of my every fucked-upness. The room of my undying obsession. The room of my perverse.
“Maya?” I whispered.
It was slow motion as she turned to face me.
“Me…” she murmured.
I wasn’t sure if it was a question, but I finally let the words I’d tried to keep for years out, “You. It was always you. It’ll always be you.”
A sob broke away from her throat.
Taking a tentative step toward her, I waited for her to tell me to stop, but she didn’t. I stopped in front of her, bending my knees so I could see her face better.
“I’m so overwhelmed. I feel like dying, but it’s not good or bad. It’s just too much. I...“ she trailed off.
I waited until she put her thoughts in order.
Taking a breath, she looked up at me. “I need you to hurt me.”
***
I was shaking like a teenage boy who was going to kiss his crush for the first time. The only difference was my kiss of love was going to hurt her until she shook in my arms with a sated look on her face.
Finding the control panel on the wall, I turned the light on above the spanking bench. I slowly walked toward her, trying to gage her reaction. When she looked at me, there was an excited glimpse behind all the sadness. It was the first glimmer of hope that she’d be my Maya again.
