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The world returned in color and sound; the cold air, the chatter of the crowd, the sweetness of ice cream. I looked to my side where his arm wrapped around mine. His grey eyes held concern. It was then I realized I'd been leaning on him and would've hit the ground if he wasn't holding me."Yeah. I'm good. Sorry." I forced a shaky smile and focused on my melting ice cream, pretending nothing had happened.Dominic didn't seem too convinced though. I felt his curious stare on me as we continued walking. God please. The last thing I wanted was to scare him off with my trauma.But why was I suddenly having these flashes of the Torturer? Were my memories trying to return?Until now, I hadn't been sure if I wanted to get those memories back. I hated the demon so much I didn't want to remember a single thing about him. But then, getting my memories back would also help me remember my friends and families and tell me who I can trust. So maybe I wasn't completely against it.For the next couple

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VOIDTwo hours, eleven minutes.That was how long it took her to open her eyes.I'd been counting the seconds like a madman, each tick another knife twisting in my chest as I sat by her bed, watching those very eyes.Every sound she'd made replayed on a loop inside my head; the raw terror in her voice, the way her body had thrashed against mine before it went limp. The look in her eyes right before she fell.She'd seen a demon. And I knew it wasn't me. Not this time.At the time, I'd been more focused on saving her and didn't have the time to start fishing out who the demon was. Oh, there'd be plenty of time for that; plenty of time to hunt them down and have fun with them.I wanted their death to be slow and different. Wanted their penalty to be heavier than Blayne's; because what they took from me was something Blayne didn't. They took the happiness she'd been painstakingly trying to rebuild. The quiet trust she'd started to place in me. The 'yes' I was so damn close to hearing

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VOID Marshall and Mayor—the Ash Twins.Blayne had told me about them months back, and since then, they'd been a persistent itch. They'd been one of the people that'd been difficult to find. Plus I hadn't been hunting them aggressively since I found Rali; she'd taken priority over my entire existence.Now they followed her here. I had a good feeling they didn't know she was here. Marshall—the twin she'd seen—probably didn't even see her last night, and that was good news, because I was sure he was still around somewhere.‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ RALI'I'll find them, Rali. And you'll see I was right about keeping you safe.'I'd doubted those very words two days ago. So staring at the two mugshots in front of me felt like someone had unplugged me from reality."Ma'am? Are those the men?" The cop repeated gently.My lips hadn't closed yet from the shock, my eyebrows creased with surprise. I looked from the two cops to Dominic who was leaning by the wall close to the door."How?" The word sounde

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I closed my eyes as the reel ran through my head: the men at the parlor, the other girls that'd been envious of me, every single person that touched me when I didn't want them to, every single pain I endured."I was a sex slave to them." A tear slipped out with the words.His thumb swept over the pulse pounding at my neck. The slow circle of it stole a shaky breath right out of me."Open your eyes, Rali."I did."None of that was your fault. You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. It doesn't matter what you've been through; doesn't matter what those men did. You being alive only shows how strong you are."His hand moved from the side of my neck to the back of my head, holding me the way someone holds something precious"Don't you ever think for one second that you're a problem. Don't ever think you don't deserve to be loved by a man, because that'd make me believe I'm not a man."His words drenched me in sudden cold. They vacuumed the air from my lungs, yet somehow, I still bre

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RALII woke to a pair of cold gray eyes already waiting for me. They were so close they swallowed my whole view.Dominic lay shirtless on his side beside me, one arm tucked beneath his head, the other idly tracing invisible shapes on the pillow. He looked like he'd been watching me long enough to memorize the exact second my eyelashes fluttered awake."Hey," he said, his voice deep and sweet in the way winter could be sweet—beautiful, cold, and quietly deadly."Hey." I whispered back. My voice sounded small and tired and yet strangely at peace.The window behind him was pitch-black. "How long was I out?""A couple of hours."Shit. "Is Marovelle back?"I didn't want to imagine that woman walking in and catching me and a shirtless man in her house. She'd burn the place down out of shock.His lips twitched, the smallest hint of humor slipping through his calm. "Not yet."I drew in a slow, steadying breath and let it out on a quiet sigh.I glanced down at my naked self. I couldn't bel

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My veins felt suddenly empty, stunned into stillness. My fingers stiffened against the counter as something ugly began to assemble in my mind.'Ma'am, are those the men?' I still remembered the voice of the cop as he and his partner sat on the couch across from me, showing me the mugshot. Ryan and Tyler. Those were the names on their badges.They sounded professional. They even had guns in their holsters.'Well, all thanks to your friend here and the identification you made, we were able to track both brothers and currently have them in custody.'My friend.Dominic.He'd been leaning against the wall, watching the scene.It was him who had brought them. Together, they convinced me the Ash Twins were in custody. Now I stood in a police station being told those men had never been arrested. That the officers who swore they had them in custody did not exist."Are you alright, miss?" The woman's voice held concern. "If you feel confused, or think someone may have misled you, please go into

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His eyes no longer pretended to be kind. They screamed what he truly was. The monster everyone had warned me about. The villain my mind had tried to erase.I took a step back.Then another.My breath came out shaky and uneven. I didn't want to react. I didn't want to expose what I had realized. But the moment he appeared in that doorway, I knew—He already knew I knew."I was just arranging my stuff." I tried a lie anyway, even though I knew he wouldn't buy a word of it.He said nothing; just watched me.Seconds stretched thin. The silence grew so heavy it pressed against my ears.Then I knew it was game over.I turned and bolted for the bathroom, hoping to lock myself in and call for help. But the devil has always been faster than those who already fell prey for him. He was on me before I even made it to the door.My scream was the kind banshees used, yet no walls crumbled to save me from him. His hand wrapped around my chest and the other around my waist. With impossible strength, h

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I kept my head bowed as sobs ravaged my body. He stayed silent, and I didn't need to look up to know he was watching me. Studying my ruin. Measuring my misery.I was so scared. So terrified of him. But above all I hated him. Hated him for what he did to me.My crying thinned to quiet broken gasps before I finally heard his voice."You have every right to be upset." The calmness in his tone felt almost cruel in its indifference. "I'll take every blame you throw at me. Won't try to stop you from crashing out. But you'll eventually forgive me, Rali, because you can't hate me forever."Fresh rage detonated inside my chest.The son of a bitch."I won't!" I screamed, my voice hoarse and feral. "I'll hate you until my last breath, you evil thing! I'll never ever love a man like you!"He still didn't seem affected by my words. He was too closed off. Too untouched. And that made me hate him even more."Food will be brought to you soon," he said, already turning away. "Get some rest."My legs t

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My hands curled tight around the bundle of clothes. It was my fault. If I'd kept my fear of men alive, if I'd never trusted him, maybe I wouldn't be standing here now in his cage.I turned my back to him and changed as swiftly as I could.When I was done, he took the towel from me without a word. He stepped back into the bathroom, then returned moments later and guided me to the bed.I was surprised when he pulled out a message oil, sat beside me, and placed my leg on his lap."Stop it. I don't—""We could do this chained."I stopped struggling.His hands on me burned. I'd do anything to get them off. I couldn't believe the asshole was trying so hard to act normal. Like we weren't enemies and I didn't wish to kill him.He could keep deluding himself. One way or another, I'll escape this place. And when I did, I'd run so far he'd never find the dust of me again......Light from the screen flickered over my face, and my smile mirrored the one on TV.As I laughed, a mellow breeze slippe

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I got to understand what those buttons were meant for when he pressed one of them and the chains holding Marshall started moving. At a slow pace, it took him up, down, again, the whole time, stretching him really hard.He eventually came awake with a low pained grunt. The pain must've been unbearable. His arms were stretched high as the machine lifted and dropped him in slow, relentless cycles. It was like a wounded person forced into endless involuntary push-ups.I had seen countless acts of violence in Blayne's parlor. I had never enjoyed them. I had been traumatized by them more times than I could count.But for the first time, I didn't really feel disgust as I watched Marshall being tortured. It did something to my wounds.Leaving Marshall moving that way, he moved to the coffin. I couldn't help but wonder what special horror he had for this one.As I moved closer to the coffin, I noticed the network of pipes coiled around it like veins."One time, you told me about a scene from t

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