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Chapters (41)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. EPILOGUE
  41. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“I’m not doing anything like that again.” Her skin crawled at memories of that man sliding his hands up under her dress and over her bare legs.

He dragged her out of the bedroom and toward a chair sitting near the kitchen. He forced her into the chair, and when she tried to get up, he struck her hard across the face. Her head snapped sideways, and pain rocked through her body. Duct tape ripped from a roll and bound her wrist to the chair arm. As he pulled more tape, she clawed at her bindings, but her fingernails simply scraped over the slick tape. He grabbed her second hand and attached it to the chair.

When he stepped back, he looked pleased, excited. “I’ve waited for this for a long time. When Jordan gets home, we’re going to have a real party.”

“Jordan is too smart for you.”

He reached in his pocket and pulled out a syringe and rubber hose. “I don’t think she is.”

As he moved toward her, she pressed her back into the chair. “What is that?”

“A little something to help you relax.”

“I don’t want it! I don’t do that anymore. Please.” Her voice broke as panic scraped her insides.

“Oh, come on, Avery, you’ve missed it. I know you must lie in bed at night and dream about getting high again.”

She had. Some nights in the early days the temptation had been almost painful. But she had resisted. And for him to put that poison in her now could unchain a beast she might not ever tame again. “I don’t want it.”

“Sure you do.”

She shook her head from side to side. “No!”

He tied the rubber hose around her arm, and when the vein in the crook of her arm bulged, he flicked it with his fingertip. “Pretty vein.”

“Don’t do this. Please don’t do this.”

He pressed the needle to her vein. “This is just a start. Once I’ve taken care of Jordan, you and I’ll find a quiet place. By then, you’ll realize how much you want this, and you’ll do anything I want to get it.”

She winced as the needle pricked her skin. The warm liquid streamed into her vein, and almost immediately, the tension and worry melted. “I don’t want this.”

“You don’t know what you want. But I do.” He leaned close to her ear and pulled his mask up. “I’m going to show you things you never dreamed possible when I put the plastic bag on your head.”

Tears rolled down her cheeks as her eyelids grew heavy. “No.”

He chuckled softly. “This is going to be fun.”

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

Sunday, April 25

12:00 a.m.