Page 15 of Betrayal (Corrupt Empire 1)

“Are you going to leave these on me?” I indicated my hands behind my back with my head.

“Do you think you deserve to be let off?”

I didn’t think yes would be the right answer.

“No…?”

His lip quirked up at the side, eyes sparking with amusement.

“So you are learning.”

I wanted to wipe that smile off his face. Partly because it annoyed me how sarcastic his tone had been, but mostly because his smile made him seem human. I couldn’t afford to think of him that way. Aiden was making it his mission to break me. He’d said it himself. He needed me compliant. I had no idea why. He should just kill me and be done with it. Then he wouldn’t have to deal with me being the only witness to murder.

“Why are you keeping me alive?”

The smile left his face. His expression hardened.

“I gave you an opportunity to ask me questions. You wasted it.”

I didn’t point out he’d answered the questions before that one.

“Fine, be all mysterious about why you’re keeping me here. I mean aside from the obvious part where you took me because of what I saw.”

The absurdity of my situation wasn’t lost on me. Lying almost naked on a cold concrete floor with a man who looked at me like he wasn’t sure whether he wanted to strangle me or… fuck me.

I wasn’t about to let him do either. Not that I would have much choice. He’d already shown me how easy it was for him to overpower me. Even so, I was sure Aiden wasn’t planning on raping me. He’d had ample opportunity to do so.

“You’re not what I expected.”

I thought I’d misheard him for a moment. What did he expect? A girl who’d just lay down and take it? I’d certainly given him a wakeup call if that was the case.

In all honesty, he wasn’t what I expected either. Especially not the part about my body’s traitorous reaction to him. Normal people didn’t want their captor. Normal people fought tooth and nail to get away. Perhaps I wasn’t normal. I was going to try my damn hardest to keep from falling under whatever spell was between us because I was almost one hundred per cent sure he had a similar reaction to me.

“That makes two of us.”

He picked up my clothes from the floor and walked away to the door. I didn’t want him to leave me like this. Arguing would only land me in further trouble. I wasn’t about to lose any more clothes to him. He said nothing as he shut the door behind him.

I was alone in the dark again.

I was freezing cold.

And a huge part of me didn’t want to admit he’d left me high and dry.

Stupid traitorous body.

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