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September Chapter 64: Names
Emmet startled for a second.
Was he brought here on purpose? What for?
He heard his handcuffs rattle against the bedframe and winced as he shuffled without thinking, trying to pull himself further up the bed.
"How do you know who I am?" Emmet decided to ask instead of the obvious bait that Lila was laying out for him.
It wouldn't be best if he simpl did everything that she wanted while under duress, even if she did hold all the cards and Emmet owed her a lot at the current moment. He needed to avoid setting a precedent where he would just play into her hands over and over again. It was his only way forward right now, and he was glad that soon, anyway, he would be healed enough to leave, even if he did require crutches for quite a bit longer as well as a sling on his arm.
"I know everything about you because it's very easy to get practically anything and everything out of your Jasper," she snared back, her face remaining unchanging even if her voice
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