The Devil's Broken Doll
Her brows pinched together, confused by the strange shape of the compliment, by the way it landed like a hook and not a gift.
He moved to the other wrist, repeating the careful ritual.
By the time he was finished, the sting had ebbed to a faint throb. Her clenched hands slowly uncurled, fingers flexing in the water.
She watched him as he worked, the steam turning the edges of his features soft. The lantern-light painted gold across his knuckles when he lifted his hands, droplets falling from his fingertips in slow, bright beads.
This was wrong, she thought again. He was the Devil. The creature who strung her up, who ripped sounds out of her that she didn’t have names for, who made her body b
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