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Chapter 154Katie's POVCephus made me a cup of herbal tea from the cabin supplies, and I was pretty sure he added a splash of something that wasn’t provided in the tea tray, but it was failing to calm me down.I thought I’d accepted the situation I was in, but this was much worse than the worst I had prepared for. As a kidnapper, I could be frightened, hurt, mutilated… even murdered, but once it got to that point I wasn’t going to care very much, and anyway, Cephus wasn't interested in inflicting extreme harm on a whim.Marriage was a life sentence.Around the middle of the day, Cephus came in with a little suitcase and a smaller, transparent plastic bag filled with toiletries: a small toothbrush and toothpaste, soap, a shower cap, and a few other boxed items I didn’t want to think about the use of.I pushed them across the bed. “Do you get special care packages made up for the girls whose lives you plan to completely ruin?”“It’s standard hotel equipment, Katie, don’t be dramatic.”
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Katie's POV
Chapter 155Katie's POVA permanent partner to me is what will balance me, reaffirm and remind me of my humanity when I am required to do very dark things, giving my life the significance it would otherwise lack.”The way he talked, it was like someone was forcing him to be some violent kneecap-smashing criminal. “Well, you’ve kidnapped the wrong girl, Cephus. Even if I wanted to, I could never do those things for you. There’s nothing soft or supportive about me.”I stiffened into silence when he reached over and put his hand on my bare knee. “Please, Katie, it’s Cephus. I don’t need to have women giving me this last-name attitude like they’re on the opposite side of me in a business deal. You at least are not, thank God for that.”“Oh, there’s that sexism jumping out again.”“I’d like to ask you, Katie, where you think your life is going if you’re not planning on getting married? You mentioned being ‘left to your own devices’… what are those, exactly? The television, your smartphone?
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Chapter 156Katie's POVAt some point, my kidnapping had become a musical number or two short of a full-scale production. “I… how long have you been coming up with this plan?”“Just while we’ve been sitting here,” said Cephus. He met my eyes and seemed to bristle a little. He could probably tell I didn’t believe him. “You have to be agile in this business, Katie. There was this one time, I went to this scumbag’s house to collect on a debt, but I was just the first guy who decided to take care of that business that day… and the one who showed up after I was packing.”He was seriously trying to impress me with a war story after keeping me up half the night of being kidnapped.“That other guy was only seeking half the money I was there for too, a complete clown. But of course, he was ready to go postal, and the only thing that could have made the situation worse was if he realized I was a threat to him getting what he wanted, so quick as a flash I dumped my suit jacket behind a chair in
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Chapter 157Katie's POV“I have a feeling you’re not against a bit of bondage play,” I said as soon as I opened the door to the bedroom. I’d decided I was going to be the one to come and find him. I needed to hold my own as much as possible still, and this seemed like one way to do it without getting him angry at me.Cephus looked up from the little card table he was sitting at and slipped the black book he’d been examining into his shirt pocket. “Why is that?”For a moment I couldn’t reply, distracted by how ridiculously out of place he looked at that table in his sleek suit.Well actually, he looked out of place in the entire scenario. Everything here was very plain and homey, a bit like one of those caravan sets on old episodes of Home and Away, not the sort of scene a multi-millionaire would tolerate even on holiday. It was a bit too downmarket even for me.I forced myself to get back to the point. “These.” I raised one foot and wiggled it at the ankle. I was surprised that the c
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Chapter 158Katie's POVIf you’re teaching you know it’s not true, for a start, but then it just really bothers me to think that you’ve been watching me. So it’s not getting you anything you want.”“Getting you in a little temper is exactly what I want.” Cephus scooped up my tossed shoe. I froze as he knelt at my feet. I wanted to back the hell out of there, but of course that was probably exactly what he wanted too. He didn’t have to use all of his threatening force to keep me in line, and he was happy for me to realize it.I tried not to wiggle my toes in nervousness as he took my bare foot in his hands, running one smooth fingertip along the edge of a scratch I’d picked up in the fuss the night before. I i never would have thought that socks would seem like a necessity to keep me feeling safe.“It’s nothing,” I spoke up as his examination grew uncomfortably long. “It doesn’t hurt.”“We will have to be more careful with you in the future,” said Cephus. “Perhaps if I treat you like
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Chapter 159Katie's POVThe fucker put his hands up again. “I suppose I can’t deny that one.”“Please! Hands on the fucking wheel!”“You know, I’m glad we took this trip together,” Cephus said. “I’m getting a vivid picture of what it will be like to be married to you. I can’t say I’m against the challenge of it.”That seemed to be the end of the conversation, which was just fine by me at that point. I almost wanted to cry with frustration, but I reminded myself that was just a consequence of my fright and exhaustion catching up with me, something I didn’t want to show Cephus, and it would pass.I stared out the window at fields I would never have seen on my way out there, and had probably never passed by before. It was strange, thinking about my parents on the other side of the world right now while I had never even seen a bunch of cow hotels a few hours’ journey from my usual location. Somehow I’d never thought about how strange it was that they never invited me to come along with
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Chapter 160Katie's POVI couldn’t even manage to get out of Cephus’s car in those stupid heels, not without potentially exposing myself to the wider audience of the area in which we had parked. Cephus had to step in front of me and draw me out holding onto both of my hands. Then I took one step and teetered until he tucked my arm around his and led me off like a walking doll. I felt ridiculous, and seeing other suited men, sometimes also maneuvering women, glancing at us as we drew close to the entrance and trying to meet Cephus’s eye with their knowing smirks made me feel horrendously conspicuous.I fell over in the elevator on the way up to the restaurant. One elderly woman was riding up with us, who clutched her handbag closer to her chest and squinted down at me with this look of I know you’re drunk right now.I would have let her know I was currently kidnapped so the disapproval could be redirected to where it rightfully belonged, but a woman like that seemed liable to blame m
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Chapter 161Katie's POVIt was lucky for me that my hands were already occupied with holding up his jacket, or I might have made some embarrassing concession to my sudden desire to get closer to the action.And what did it matter if he knew? He probably did know that women fell over themselves the instant he took his clothes off. And the whole point of our encounter was that he intended to convince me to marry him… or to play along with intending to marry him, which was more or less the same thing these days, at least physically. On some level, he was making an offer of intimacy. Surely he’d be happy to hear that I wanted to be intimate with him, considering how offended he got about any notions of sexual assault.Well maybe it wouldn’t matter to him, but it mattered to me. I didn’t want to end up overwhelmed by sexual feelings for a man, it was much more comfortable when it worked in the other direction. I just didn’t know if I had any way to escape it.Cephus slid the shirt off, f
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