Chapter 20:

Alice’s malice was fully revealed, and what she wanted was far from simple.

But Alice was also unusually agreeable when her demands were met, and she would satisfy me as long as I didn’t ask for too much.

“It’s like a final kindness before the death sentence, right? She has been separating us deliberately or unintentionally ever since you began to tell me some secrets.” I said. I lifted my arms and let Claire help me put on my jacket.

“Is there anything else you want to say to me?”

Claire’s fingers stiffened as they moved around my collar. She lowered her head and chose silence.

I was annoyed by her mute silence. “Alice only gave me a tube of anesthetic. You know, Mason wouldn’t faint even in an environment full of anesthetic gas. What effect could a small tube of anesthetic have?”

Claire paused for a moment, then resumed her numb expression as she pressed my waist and pulled down my shorts.

“Claire, I won’t run away. I have no other choice.”

That sentence was like a spell, a spell th