Jessica froze, then the knife cut even deeper. “So you were never really mine. Already trying to climb your way up to Roxy?”
“I’ll destroy this face, and we’ll see how you seduce anyone else!”
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Chapter 1
I screamed until I passed out.
When I woke up, I’d been thrown out onto the dirt at the compound’s main gate. Standing nearby, talking to Jessica, was Roxy herself.
“Roxy!” I rasped, my voice raw.
She looked over, a flicker of surprise in her eyes. “How does he know my name?”
Jessica’s face paled. She lunged forward, grinding her heel onto my mouth. “He must have overheard my ca on the bus. Don’t worry, it’s useless for him to know now.”
Roxy considered this for a moment, then stuck a cigarette between her lips. “Is that so? You wouldn’t dar pull any tricks. How many is this now?”
Jessica ground her heel into my mouth one last time before scrambling over to light Roxy’s cigarette. “Thi is the seventh. Don’t worry, I know the rules. He’s an orphan, no family, no one to come looking for him. H
was even a virgin when I got him.”
Roxy crouched down and blew a smoke ring in my face, studying me.
A sliver of hope rekindled within me. She knew me. If she recognized me, she would make Jessica take m away. Immediately. After all, if the Boss found out one of her own people had kidnapped me, they would a
be dead.
Tsk. What did you do to his face? He’s hideous.” Roxy looked away in disgust.
My heart sank. She didn’t recognize me.
