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“My Zoe being corrupted by these two rainbows. I couldn’t stand by and watch you do that to yourself. You needed to be back with me. With someone who will treat you right!”
I burst out laughing. “Treat me, right? Treat me fucking right? Look at me, Nikolai. I’m strung up half-naked like a piece of meat in a basement. You’re pimping me out to all your friends and colleagues as if I’m yours to give away. I will never be yours.”
Nikolai’s eyes darken at my words. “You are mine. You will always be mine.”
“You may have my body, Nikolai, but you will never have my heart. My heart was taken by those two men that you just destroyed. You may think you have won by ruining them, but that was your biggest mistake because now I have nothing. I have fucking nothing anymore. I’m not going to play your fucking games again. Do your worst, Nikolai. Do your fucking worst, I don’t care anymore. I want to die. I want this over with.” Tears run down my cheeks.
Nikolai looks angry. I watch as his chest rises rapidly.
“Why won’t you love me, Zoe? You could have been by my side in this life. Why don’t you want me?” He thumps his chest.
“Because I could never love a man as vile as you, you fucking repulse me. I hate you. I hate you with everything that I have.”
I watch as darkness falls across his face. Nikolai straightens himself and pulls his knife out from behind his back.
My instincts kick in, and I thrash about in the chains.Please let this be quick, please.
Nikolai slashes my bra, and the material falls to the floor. Then he cuts the tiny fabric of my G-string, and it falls beside my bra.
I’m open and exposed to him.
“I gave you chances, Sapphire, but your luck has run out now.” He puts the knife away and moves closer to me. His hands run up and down my exposed flesh, then he quickly turns away and walks to the door. He speaks to someone on the outside, then returns with Dmitri, who has a sadistic smile on his face. “We know it was you who called the police and as much as I want to slit your throat right now for being a traitor, I have other ideas for you. I’ve decided to get rid of you, sell you off to someone else who wants you. Your chances with me have run out, and I see you now as nothing but a useless whore. I want to hurt you so badly, but I can’t afford to bruise your skin, not if I want top dollar. The Arabs like their women clean. So instead, Dmitri and I are going to have some fun with you.”
I thrash again against the chains, no.Please kill me, now.
Dmitri is unzipping his jeans, fisting his hardening cock in his hands.
No, no. I cry, I scream, I will not let them.
But all I hear is Nikolai’s dark laugh as hands touch me.
34
MATEO
“What do you mean she isn’t there?” I scream down the phone at Enrique, who has just raided the palace that Zoe called us from.
“The place is empty. I think they were tipped off. We got some of the men, but they are not speaking. Gracie and Zoe are not here.”
I fall to the floor. “No, she is supposed to be there. We were just talking to her. No. No!”
Sophie tries to wrap her arms around my shoulders.
“We will find them,” Enrique says down the phone.
“I don’t think she is going to get another chance. They are going to kill her. They’ll know it was her who tipped them off. Fuck!” I roar, pushing Sophie away from me. Picking up a chair, I throw it at the wall and kick the stupid rubbish bin over. I want to destroy things like they have destroyed our life by taking her.
“Keep us informed if you have anything,” Tomas says to Enrique, then hangs up the phone. “Mateo,” he says quietly.
“She’s dead, Tomas, she is fucking dead. They are going to kill her!” I scream, pushing him away. I need to be alone. I walk out of the room and into the garden, gasping for air as I collapse into the thick grass.
“Mateo.” I hear Tomas’s panicked voice. “Mateo!”
I wake up in my bed. “What happened?”
“You collapsed.” Tomas’s worried face comes into focus.
“My heart is breaking, Tomas, I can’t, we can’t …”