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“I don’t care.”

I went silent for another moment. Then I looked up at him, eyes wide and fearful. “What are you going to do to me?”

“I’m going to punish you. You deserve every ounce of pain,” he said. “When I have what I want from you, I’ll end it.”

I knew what that meant, and it wasn’t that he would finally end the torture and free me.

“You’re going to kill me,” I said in a flat voice.

He nodded. “Yes, Jolie. I’m going to kill you.”

Tears slid down my face, but I didn’t protest his words. I understood now.

I closed my eyes again as my mind drifted back in time. Of course this man wanted to punish me for the way I betrayed him all those years ago.

I deserved it.

I deserved it all.

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