Chapter 12 ALLESIA I didn’t want to admit it, but the food helped. It was real food. Warm, soft bread, roasted chicken, potatoes done just right. Comfort food. I ate like a robot, slow and mechanical. My thoughts weren’t on the food. They were on that damn file. Submission of my will. A contract. What kind of freak writes a contract for sex? But it wasn’t just sex, was it? Russel Mancini didn’t just want to sleep with me. He wanted control. Complete, unapologetic control. The realization settled over me like a winter coat soaked in freezing rain. It made my skin crawl. What the hell had I agreed to? Or worse—what the hell had my brother gotten me into? I stared at the closet again, then back at the bed, then again at the file like it might jump at me. “You’re just being dramatic,” I muttered to myself, even though every single thing about this night told me to run. But run to where? I ended up on the floor, curled up against the edge of the bed, knees to my chest, waiting. I
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