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  He shook his head slowly from side to side. “I can never be bound again. Don’t you understand that? I can never return to you.”

  She pouted. “But why, when I brought you to ecstasy every time we were together? I made sure you knew pleasure. I was a good master to you.”

  Angelica’s chain trembled at her throat, vibrating with Reyes’s emotion. “While you chained me, cut me, and beat me? While you had others pulling and sucking on me or shoving their dicks into every orifice I possess? You can’t imagine why I wouldn’t want to return to that?”

  “You’re kidding yourself, Reyes. Don’t you see? You’ve found your way back to me. This is what you’ve wanted since you left my home. You need to be here.”

  Angelica made a quick decision. She joined Reyes and slid her hand up his arm. “I want to do this, master.”

  He whipped his head in her direction. “What?”

  She caressed his muscles, hoping to give an appearance of arousal. She swept a hand the length of the wood. “I want you here, master. I want you laid out. I want to ride you while you’re chained. You’ve already given me so much pleasure and taught me the joys of pain, but now I want more.” She shifted her gaze to Sweet Dove. “And I want your mistress to watch, because mostly I want to survive, and what better way than to please the Starlin leadership?”

  Sweet Dove narrowed her gaze at Angelica. “You’re smarter than I suspected. And I admire anyone who chooses to live.”

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  Reyes stared at Angelica. He didn’t fully understand what was going on, which meant his brain wasn’t quite functioning yet. But he did know that Angelica’s professed desire to do what Sweet Dove wanted made no sense at all. He’d never caused Angelica that kind of pain, so why was she talking like this?

  He shifted his gaze back to the table, where he’d been raped times beyond counting, and knew he couldn’t go through with Sweet Dove’s demands. Here was the one thing he’d promised himself: Never to allow again anyone to chain him down. Ever.

  “I won’t do it.”

  Angelica turned toward him and pressed herself up against his body. “Please, master.” She sounded desperate, but her telepathic words carried profound resolve. Reyes, together we can do this. You and I. Forget Sweet Dove right now. Focus on me. Just me. We have to do this.

  He turned and held her gaze and his mind began to clear a little more. I can’t. Try to understand. She took everything from me, here in this room. Everything.

  I know that. But she’s also Scorpion and she just earned a fortune on the death of the Russian slave. We owe it to that woman to keep going. Reyes, you have to do this, but it will be very different because I’ll be with you every step of the way. I’ll be the one commanding you and riding you. Not her. I’ll be making love to you, and that’s not the same thing as what happened before.

  Aloud she said, “I want to live, master. Do this for the head of Starlin. Please.”

  He shook his head. I can’t do this. I won’t.

  Angelica kept her head bowed, still playing her role. Reyes, you must. Don’t you see? If you do this one thing you’ll be on the Starlin board. You’ll finally have access to all the information you’ve been seeking. The game can be won or lost here.

  His mind finally ordered itself, and he shifted his gaze to the table. But one final element came into view, something he was sure Angelica hadn’t considered: Once he was bound in chains, if Sweet Dove decided to kill Angelica or to give her to Engles there’d be nothing he could do to save her.

  Reyes, tell me I’m wrong, but if you refuse isn’t it possible, even likely, that Sweet Dove will never make the offer again? Isn’t this your only hope, our only hope?

  As if to confirm Angelica’s take on the situation, Sweet Dove drew close. “I’ll only offer this once, Reyes. Accept the chains here and now or I’ll rescind your membership immediately. And you’ll be out for good.”

  To be continued …

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