His Volition
“I need you to be willing, not forced. If I kill Carmen, you’ll never cooperate. But if you marry me, if you agree to give me what I want, I’ll let her go. She’s no threat to me. And once she’s out of the way, we can finally be together, like we were always meant to be.”
Every instinct screamed at me to refuse, to fight back, but the thought of Carmen, wounded and alone, in the hands of this madwoman made my blood run cold. I couldn’t risk her life. I had to find a way to save her.
“Alright,” I said slowly, the words tasting like ash in my mouth. “I’ll do it. I’ll marry you, Fiona. But you have to let Carmen go first. I need proof that she’s alive.”
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