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"I think you have all you need right here, you could probably kill me with this" I reach for the fly of his pants to unsheathe his weapon He put a hand onmy advance with a fehispered words

"I’d really enjoy what you’re about to do, but I think you need to take it easy And I don’t want to be teht Let’s take it slow till toentle, concerned I took him at face value and backed off – a little disappointed, but strangely reassured by his caution

"It’s alo now, but I’ll return to you to your concerns"

"But what are you going to do with o insane!"

"I have a couple ideas We’ll discuss it toht Get some rest, drink lots of fluids Cuídate querida"

He kissed me on the mouth and left me locked in my beautifully-furnished prison cell

Chapter 10

I woke up at three in the afternoon and realized I’d forgotten to tell Enrique about my number one proble it I needed soer Back at the Towers in Spanish Harleirls – escorts – ere into pills, and I had no desire to go there These girls would shoplift, steal, beg, borrow, and sell anything that wasn’t ceround for their next Oxycontin, methadone, or Xanax It was the withdrawals that drove them to do it, fear of withdrawals I can syht now I felt like I was heading down that road – the Desperate Addict Lane I had already developed a tolerance for the Suboxone

I had plenty of time to think before Enrique arrived Two and a half hours is a long time to think about your life when you’re hard up for a bite I still didn’t trust Enrique had been telling the truth toto Lia I mean honestly, as I to him?

Sure, I’m a nice piece of ass, but so what? Those are a di special existed between us? He’s been with Lia for twenty years, made her into a vae right? So as I to hie? No wonder she’s jealous I’ot me here in his home, all dolled up in expensive clothes

What makes me so special? Sure I read minds, but that doesn’t exactly endear e of 14 I learned to keep s I plucked fro to fuck I anticipated what he wanted, what he liked I catered to him sexually I can’t really do that with Enrique, I can’t read a single goddaht hi and called them on it He often calledUsually so a few dollars off the top of the business, cutting the coke with baking soda, or even using the product he was supposed to sell Traquetos can be phenos and illicit moneywas basically an extortion of inforot off on scaring people Sometimes I think he enjoyed it more than sex To Faustino it was just business, liars are an occupational hazard in the cocaine business The worst liars were the fools hooked on their own product I can’t count the nuet the shit kicked out of hiood to lie to protect these idiots They eventually confessed through the convincing methods Arana e to the truth, which uys learned of my reputation and wised up quickly Once Faustino calledthe truth rather than suffer the consequences of being caught in a lie

Faustino and Arana used me, the other Traquetos feared me, but my status as a lie detector never made me any friends I never once adht I had a heavy dose of wo too revealing I never said anything that couldn’t be explained as acute intuition

I spent all these years being careful, and for what? Enrique knew all about my dirty little secret and now I’m stuck in this trap, a prisoner of a vampire and his psycho bitch servant I knoithout a shadow of doubt my telepathy does not endear ht, but not the kind of special anyone wants to keep around

Thoroughly depressing To top it all off, Faustino and Arana were probably looking forand possessive Faustino would not be happy his little lie detector had disappeared He’d immediately assume I ran off on him It wouldn’t be easy or simple to convince him otherwise He knew damn well how much I wanted my freedom Even if I found a way to break the bloodslave bond with Enrique, I’d be living on borrowed tis up with Faustino

With all this to think about, suffering through withdrawals, I had acquired a nice shitty attitude by the ti are the food and water in e?"

He said one word, "Cálmate" Calm down

With that he bit me into silence It’s hard to talk or coasm I could barely recall what I intended to co me what I wanted, what I needed I didn’t trust hiallant It’s i you to cli his clothes off Each passing night in this bedroom served to convince me there was no way in heaven or hell I’d ever escape this trap I couldn’t stand to be away from Enrique, even for a few minutes

Time to face facts My life revolved around Enrique, he owned my ass What to do … what to do He must’ve been attuned to oing to do with you?"

"We could start by getting me a laptop and a cell phone I want to order calzones, and so to do And we gotta talk about this Suboxone in the afternoon It’s not cutting it I need soth "Can you type?"

"Yeah, of course Why?"

"I’ you may be able to help translate solish and vice versa If you can handle it, I’ll start you out at twenty an hour"