Chapter 12ALLESIA༒༺❦༻༒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, the kind that made me suspicious of whoever had chosen the menu, like they'd known exactly what a scared, starving woman would need to calm down enough to think straight.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, the note on the front still catching the low light every ti
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