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I probably shouldn't believe hily, "What should I doso you won't hurt me?"

"It's rather simple, really"

I truly don't want to think he's crazy, but he has to be to say such a thing Nothing about being kidnapped can ever be simple—-

"All you have to do is allow yourself to enjoy my touch"

—-as that

I stare at hily

"You c-can't be serious," I stammer

"But I am"

"You abducted me!"

"An unorthodox way for two people to meet," he says dismissively, "but it happens"

A disbelieving laugh spills past my lips Did he really just say that? He practically made it sound like abduction was just another form of meet-cute!

I slowly shake my head "I just can't—-"

"No, my dove What you really mean is you've been made to think you mustn'tbut you can" He leans forward, and I stiffen involuntarily even as my heart starts to race "It's not the world I abducted, but you"

It's like having a devil speak hts out loud, and I' else

"It's not the world's fate that hangs in the balance," he whispers, "but yours It's not the world I' to punishbut you"

His thumb touches my lower lip at his last word, and it's all I can do not to cry out

"So tell me, my dove Why must you make yourself suffer pointlessly?"

Lust slithers under ined he'd say such a thing, but now that he has—-

"I didn't kidnap you just to look at you, and you know that"

I am confused and appalled

"I kidnapped you to claim every orifice of your body"

Ashamed and enthralled

He's my kidnapper, for God's sake, but he truly expect me to allow myself to enjoy his touch

The very idea is outrageously reprehensible It's unacceptable in every society and i every moral standard we're supposed to uphold

What he's proposing is utterly indecent, and while I know I mustn't ever say yes—-