Page 20 of Bones

He takes a little piece of hair hanging down, framing my face. “So beautiful, Butterfly. You’re mine now. I own every inch of you.”

Rolling my eyes, I say, “You don’t own me, Luca.”

With a groan, he wraps his hand around my throat. “I will prove to you tonight, when I’m fucking every goddamn hole you have, how much I own you.”

My eyes widen, and of course, his response is laughter. “Oh yes, Butterfly, even your sweet little asshole.”

He moves his hand slightly, and rubs his thumb along my bottom lip. “Open and suck.”

Glancing over his shoulder, I’m relieved when I don’t see anybody watching us, and part my lips. He presses his thumb into my mouth, and I suck his digit as he groans.

“Good girl,” he says, and I immediately hate myself for how those two words make me feel. Bones pulls his thumb out of my mouth with a grin. “I need to get my wife food. She has a long night ahead of her.”

Yeah, a long night of running my ass off. This has to work, because I know it’s only a matter of time until he locks me up again. And I won’t live that way. In constant fear over the worst moments of my life being repeated.

We walk back over to where everyone else is, enjoying their food, and laughing like this is an actual celebration, and Bones places his arm around my waist, pulling my body close to his. Once we approach the large display of food, he puts food on a plate and hands it to me, before getting his own.

“Thank you.”

He smirks at me. “I have expectations for you as my wife, but I will take care of you. You’re mine, and that means you’ll have every need taken care of.”

I roll my eyes as I swallow a bite of food. “Except freedom, right?”

Bones grins at me. “You’ll never have that. It’s not what you need anyway.”

Ignoring him, I take a bite ofbraciole, and join him at the table. He sits beside me instead of across from me, like I might run at any moment. He’s right to fear that, but I won’t do it when he’s awake. I’m not that stupid.

When everybody starts to leave, I get excited, but try to act nonchalant. It’s almost time. I just have to get him to turn his back, so I can put the pills in his drink. Once he’s passed out, I’m gone.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

BONES

My beautiful wife is about to find out what most people already know about me. Very little gets by me, certainly in my own damn house. I have every inch of this house covered with cameras. She’s going to be very disappointed with how tonight turns out. I give her free rein so she can accomplish what she thinks she’s going to.

“I’ll see you in bed, Butterfly.”

If she’s surprised she doesn’t show it, but I kiss her on the forehead and retreat to the bed, leaving enough rope for her to hang herself with.

Athena comes into the bedroom with a drink in her hand, a drugged drink no doubt, and hands it to me. “For my husband.”

I sniff it. “Is it poisoned?”

She giggles uncomfortably. “Of course not. Where would I get poison?”

I’m sure if she could get her hands on it, she would have put something in my drink to kill me. There’s nothing she won’t do to get free. However, this is her real problem. There’s nothing I won’t do to keep her. The moment I decided she’d be my wife was the moment her fate was sealed.

“I’ll be back, I need to get ready for bed.”

I nod as she turns to go toward the bathroom, and once she closes the door, I feed most of my drink to the plant sitting on my nightstand. I’m a little pissed off that I might be killing my favorite plant, but I’ll have to take my chances. I leave a bit in the glass, because I think that’d be normal. Placing the glass on the table, I get into sweatpants and climb onto the bed. I sleep naked but I don’t want to be nude right now, because I know I’m going to be going after my wife. I close my eyes and wait.

Ihave no clue if I snore because I always sleep alone, at least until recently, so I part my lips and breathe deeply. She walks into the room. “Bones?”

Of course, I don’t respond.

“Luca?”

Fuck, I love the way that sounds, but still I say nothing.

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