Page 198 of Sinfully Savage Mafia

But would she tell me?

She’d never sell out her brother, and would I be able to trust her if she said it wasn’t them?

Another round of screams explodes into the air. I hear the headboard of the bed slam against the wall as she flounders on the mattress.

“Sergio!”

I clutch the sides of my head. “What?” I shout back.

“I have to pee!”

I drag myself off the wall and fling open the door. “What part about making you suffer wasn’t clear the first time?”

“Look,” she seethes. “I don’t know why I’m here or what you plan to do to me, but the least I’d expect is to be treated with a little bit of goddamn dignity! And that means being able to use a bathroom! Cuff me to the freaking toilet, but get me in there!”

I let out a sharp breath and stare at her. The second I uncuff her, she’s gonna attack me like a rabid lioness. I search the room and then wander into the foyer for supplies. A roll of duct tape sits on one of the half-walls. I grab it and bring it into the bedroom. I wrap it around her ankles first so she has nowhere to run, and kicking will be quite the challenge since I’ve basically turned her into a mermaid. Then I uncuff one wrist and pull her loose arm over to the still-cuffed one. I snap the handcuffs on both of her wrists and bend down to gather her in my arms. I swing her upward as she wiggles around.

“You think you’re so smart, don’t you?” she mutters as I carry her toward the bathroom.

“Well, seeing as how I’m not the one who’s so trapped she needs to be carried to the toilet, yeah. I think I’m the smarter one in this scenario.”

I deposit her inside the bathroom and she glares at me.

“Pull down my pants, you dickhead.”

I can’t fight the smirk and she curses me before collapsing on the seat. I turn around to give her some privacy because I’m not an animal, after all, and when she’s done, she calls my name. With a sweet smile, she asks me to wipe her and pull up her pants again.

This time when I lean over, she clocks me in the side of the head with her knee. I make sure to pull her panties up so high, they’re in her throat when I carry her back to the bed and cuff her again.

“You can’t keep me here forever,” she says in a low voice, squirming on the bed. “Nate needs to know that you have me.”

“Oh, he will. When I’m goddamn good and ready!”

She shakes her head, her eyes fluttering closed for a minute. “I would do anything to protect my brother.”

“I know that. It’s why you came to my club last week, to fuck around with my business and figure out a way to get the upper hand. You fucking played me!”

She lifts an eyebrow. “It wasn’t that hard.”

I narrow my eyes. “Well, guess what? It didn’t work. Your brother doesn’t get the last word. I do!”

“So you think you’re just going to babysit me until he changes his mind?” She shakes her head. “You don’t have any idea what you’re up against, Villani. You want Nate to change his mind? Well, he needs to be alive to make that deal. There’s so much more to this than you know, and the longer you hold me here, the less of a chance you have of that happening.”

I stomp over to her, hovering low against her face. “Jaelyn, I’m gonna tell you something right now that you need to remember because I won’t say it again. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, you are completely fucked. See how that works?” I trail a finger down the side of her face, tilting her chin upward so she has no choice but to look at me. “I do not and will not believe a single word that comes out of your smart-ass mouth. That’s what happens when you try to play someone one time too often. You lose their trust. Now, you can cry me whatever the hell river you want, but to me, it’s all white noise. I have an objective and you’re my way of achieving it. I don’t need to hear anything more from you. Anything that you say is complete bullshit and will be ignored, do you understand?” I pull my finger away. “Don’t think for a second that you can actually win this. You will fail. I promise you that. And when you fail, guess who pays the price?” I flash a nasty smile. “That’s right. Big bad brother Nate. You wanna be responsible for that?”

Her nostrils flare and she twists her head away from me. “If you don’t tell him you have me, it’ll be too late for him to pay you anything,” she rasps, her voice choked.

CHAPTER14

JAELYN

“You can’t leave my feet taped up like this,” I say as Sergio storms toward the doorway after my last cryptic comment. “Please. It will drive me absolutely insane if I can’t move my legs apart. And it’s not like I can go anywhere if my hands are cuffed together.”

He stands still for a long minute, like he’s trying to decide whether or not I’ve been tortured enough today. As if it wasn’t bad enough to have been assaulted, kidnapped, and then humiliated in the bathroom like that.

“Why the hell should I make you comfortable?” he growls. “This isn’t a sleepover party, princess.”

I grit my teeth. “You said you needed me as leverage, right? Well, what kind of leverage would I be if I was dead, huh? Not a real effective bargaining chip. And if you come in tomorrow morning and find me blue because the lack of circulation killed me in my sleep, then what hope do you have of using me to get what you want?”

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