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been a Godsend over the last few months.
    The door clicking open and then shut with an “Oh, sorry” made Amy pull away. I opened the door and found Faye in a dressing gown. “I didn’t, I should have . . .”
    “What, baby?”
    “I didn’t mean to interrupt.” She shook her head and lowered her eyes to the floor.
    I marched over to her, raising my hand to cup her chin. She flinched, shattering my soul. Amy’s gasp brought my eyes to her. She was looking at the bruises coloring Faye’s neck.
    “You never have to fear me, baby.” I pushed past the hurt and anger simmering under the surface of my façade. I needed vengeance.
    “I’m sorry.”
    Fuck, I couldn’t handle this.
    “Cade.” Amy said my name with caution. “This was delivered to the room, it’s for Faye.” She opened her palm which had a cell phone in it. I snatched it from her.
    “Who the fuck delivered it?”
    “Someone left it at reception. I went down to collect it. I didn’t tell Frank, I came straight to you.”
    The phone sparked to life in my hand.
    Incoming call from Dante
    That motherfucker! Pressing end, my eyes went to Faye who stared at the cell like it was about to explode and kill us all. Silent seconds passed as I tried to comprehend that he knew exactly where we were and was contacting Faye like he hadn’t kidnapped her at all.
    Beep, beep.
    Multimedia message.
    The phone disappeared from my hand in a flash. Faye took off running and locked herself in the bathroom with the phone. My head felt too heavy for my shoulders; the room was spinning. Amy’s hand curled around my bicep, guiding me to sit on the bed.
    “I’m going to get Alex.”

I SAW THE DESTRUCTION OF his heart flicker in his eyes as I snatched the phone from him. My own heart was about to implode. I would rather have died than let him see any video Dante had of me.
    I clicked the video and muted the sound. It was of me naked and bound in red fabric. It lasted only seconds.
    The phone rang in my hand and I answered it.
    “I fucking hate you!”
    “Keep telling yourself that, Star. You belong here with me and I’m already having withdrawal symptoms. I will give you a month! And Star . . .”
    “What?”
    “I know everything. You never know who is really working for me. You let him fuck you, even touch you and I’ll know . . . and I’ll kill him.”
    “You’re killing ME, Dante. Please untouch me, unlove me, unhate me; delete it all. Erase us and let me do the same. Let me go. Please.”
    His bitter laugh echoed down the line, stabbing the knife already burrowed in my heart further in. “I could never do that! You have my baby inside your womb. Things are how they were always supposed to be. You belong here with me and you’ll come home and play your role.”
    “This is not a fucking game!”
    “You’re right about that! I only play with my prey and you, my Belle, want to be with me, want me to punish and break you down just as much as I want to do it. You crave the hunger I elicit inside you! I’m your prey and we both know it.”
    He was so wrong. I only craved Cade. He fulfilled everything I ever wanted and Dante had destroyed us.
    “See you soon, my Belle.”
    The line went dead.
    I caught sight of my own reflection; I couldn’t bear to look at myself. Anger, grief and self-hatred bubbled to the surface. I threw the phone into the mirror, shattering it into a million pieces that could never be fixed. Just like me.
    The door crashed open from the weight of Cade’s shoulder ramming it. He reached for me but I stepped back, raising my hands to stop him.
    “Don’t touch me,” I begged. Ignoring the verbal bullet killing him, Amy ushered him out and reached for me. Her soft warm hand curled around my own, pulling me from the bathroom and leading me to sit on the bed.
    “You’ve cut your feet. I’ll clean them up for you.”
    I didn’t answer. I just stared into space, everything disappearing around me as I retreated inside myself.
    I needed a