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“Where are you taking me?”

He stayed silent for so long that I assumed he wouldn’t answer

“My apartment,” he finally said, and my heart jackknifed in my chest

So deep and dark inon the street again, his fingers tightening oncewheel

“If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn’t have to take you to my apartment to do it” He stated those words so matter-of-factly it was like he’d readmoment passed before he said so low I almost didn’t hear, “Even from me”

Twenty minutes later ere outside the city lie He parked, clier door before I could do it myself For a second I just stared up at hi at the cold, detached look on his face

“Coerous

I slipped my hand in his and repressed a shiver, but I didn’t know if it was one of disgust because of what I’d seen hihtly callused hand wrapping tightly aroundme out of his car

I followed him toward an elevator, and he passed a silver key card across a sensor The doors opened iether as it ascended

I should have been freaking out I should have been de he takedown at hter around the straps of my backpack and watched theaze trail over my dress that I now noticed was covered in pin-sized dark spots

Blood… blood covered me