Chapter 105

105.

Her stomach curled with dread as he went to a large cabinet. The

angle wasn’t good enough for her to see everything within, but she saw

enough implements of torture to send an icy trickle of sweat down her

spine.

He returned a few minutes later holding something composed of metal

and leather. She eyed it, struggling not to betray her fear at the sight of

metal bars, chain links, and leather cuffs.

“Take off your clothes, Mia, and I promise I’ll go easy on you for a

bit.”

Mia shook her head, but she didn’t try kicking Wallace when he

entered her cell a moment later. Instead, she pressed her back against the

wall and remained passive as he approached. It was surprisingly easy to

quell the instinct to resist as he came nearer, and it didn’t take deep self?analysis to figure out why.

Fighting Aldo had been a matter of pride and necessity. He seemed to

regard her resistance as a nuisance, but he’d wanted her enough to deal with

it. Shane had viewed it as a challenge, an