he velvet cushio

ring symbol of Brendan's power and my bondage. Now, it w

hour ago, watching with grim satisfaction as the s

uin, feeling a co

he marble of the vanity tab

t Daddy

erie shop, pirouetting in a sheer silk robe. She

ys I

mbs, cooling my blood. It was better than pain. Nu

hud of the front door e

ression and went

iskey. He looked every inch the weary king returning from battle, h

a glass across the wet b

sked, slipping effor

down there personally to oversee the patch. Y

said it. He didn't even blink. The li

fixed?"

It's ha

e curve of my dress. "You look beautiful, El. You're my s

felt like a s

lad,"

"I have to go back out. Just for a f

softly, stepping closer to fi

fast-a claim of owner

f his car disappeared down the

spine of the false book on the shelf, hearing the

lls of servers hummed in the climate-controlled

ypassing the standard biometric lock with t

server logs fo

ctiv

bre

integri

her. He had simply gotten bored of playing house

pulled out the velvet box c

ly in the center o

the box expecting to see the pristine symbol o

creen and typed a comm

otocol: Bl

every bribe, every murder authoriza

ving. I was takin

ispered to the humming room, w

burning the house