Bound To The Devil's contract
A gilded cage with a view.
My mind wouldn’t stop replaying it. The way his scarred fingers had locked around my jaw in the office. The low, amused chuckle when I threatened him. He didn’t want my compliance. Dante wanted my complete, humiliating submission. He wanted to break the daughter of the man who had dared to cross the Outfit and lived.
_Click._
The sharp, metallic sound of the electronic lock disengaging echoed from the front foyer and cut through the room like a blade.
Every muscle in my body went rigid. A cold wave of adrenaline flooded my veins, making my fingertips tingle with a sudden, panicked urge to run, to fight, to do anything but stand here and wait to be claimed.