She stills. “You said you wouldn’t touch me.” Her voice cracks.
“And I won’t unless you want me to.” A slight shiver courses through her.Interesting.
“I wouldn’t want to touch you if you were the last man on earth.
You disgust me.”
I chuckle. “Yet I saw the way you were checking me out while I
was swimming, the way your eyes scanned my body hungrily.”
“Don’t flatter yourself.”
“Sweetheart, people on the moon could fucking see it.”
She bucks again, but it’s useless, I have her locked down tightly.
“For future reference, this whole estate is under twenty-four-hour security. Every inch of this place has cameras.”
“Why are you telling me this?”
“So you know you can try to escape again, but you will fail. I
get an alert on my phone of movement. Which showed me the vision of you running through my vines. I even had your location within seconds.”
“I would have escaped.”
This makes me laugh again. “No, you wouldn’t. One, you were moving in the wrong direction to the road, and two, I knew where you were the whole time. I wanted to make you feel like you had a chance.”
“Fuck off, I will escape, no place is one hundred percent secure.”
“True, but no one has escaped from my villa, even though many have tried.”
“Who are you?”
“I was going to explain everything over a nice dinner, but now you’ve fucked me off by trying to escape. After everything Sergei and I have done for you.”
“What, by kidnapping me?” she bites back.
“Semantics. I could have let you rot in the fucking cellar, but I didn’t. We looked after you, made sure you didn’t choke and die on your own vomit while you purged your demons.”
Grace relaxes a little. “I told you I was thankful.”
“Yeah, by trying to escape.”
“Any sane person would when they’re being kept against their will.”
“I’ll give you that. But still, I did something nice for you. Does that not mean anything?”
“No, not when you’re holding me captive.”
I stay silent on this matter because she’s right. I get off her and stand up, holding out my hand for her. “Come, you must be famished after this adventure.”
She lets out a deep sigh and turns over. The white T-shirt is covered in dirt, and her hair has sticks in it. She takes my hand, and tiny sparks sizzle between us. We both feel it, and each of us frowns at the other. What the fuck was that. While I’m distracted by the sensation, Grace flips me over and has me on the ground.
Shit.
She took my breath out with that move. I see her legs run away from me.