Black Romance Chapter 48

There was so much pain in her eyes, far too much for one person . It seeped from her pores, spilling across the blanket . I could feel it in my chest, the power curling around my heart and crushing it like a ball of clay in your palm .

"You were just a child . "

"That was a long time ago, Salt . I'm not that little girl anymore . I refuse to be weak, he doesn't own me, even he knows that . That's why he holds onto me so tightly . "

"So did he take you here after all that shit went down back home? When Sylvan's place got raided?"

Advertisement"Were you involved in that too?" she asked .

"No, I keep to my own, but I heard about it . Virgo only calls me when he needs something . That's how it's always been and that's how I want to keep it . The less I know, the better, and the less he knows about my end, the better . It keeps our arrangement clean . There's no trail to follow back to either one of us . "

"So, you kill people, but you don't see yourself as a monster? I can't understand that . " Raising an eyebrow, the light off the end table lamp caught her skin perfectly, giving her a sun kissed glow . "Even I think of myself as a monster from some of the thoughts I have, the things I would do if given the chance . "

Thinning my lips, I didn't give her an answer . I spent most of my life trying to look at my profession as a job and not a sin . I rationalized it as removing the filth from the earth . I didn't kill good people, I killed the wicked .

What's so wrong about that? I make the world a better place . . .

Fucking liar .

Even my own inner voice wasn't enough to keep this charade going anymore . My father had always been that voice of reason, he would twist reality and package it up so it looked good to me .

Since he'd passed, that package was becoming less and less appealing .

Clearing my throat, I climbed off the bed and grabbed a bottle of water from the small fridge . Taking a long sip, I wiggled the bottle side to side . "Want some?"

Shaking her head yes, I walked over and handed it to her, sitting back down beside her . The weight of my body made the mattress squeak as I adjusted myself to get comfortable . The silence between us was heavy, her question deserved an answer, but I wasn't going to give one .

How do I give her an answer, when I'm having doubts myself?

Lifting the water to her lips, I watched her neck elongate as she tipped her head back, the lean muscles moving in a way that made my cock twitch as the water trickled down her throat .

"How did he do it?"

"Do what?" Twisting the cap in place, she set the bottle on the table at her side .

"How did he get you here? I mean, it's not like he could just buy you a ticket and fly you here . How did he do it?"

Glancing off, she let her eyes examine a picture on the wall of some beach off the coast . "He was pissed after all that shit happened, calling Sylvan a stupid fuck, who didn't know how to run shit . He said he wasn't going to be prosecuted here for something that was almost legal in his country . Virgo decided he could do it better, that he knew a way to keep selling women that wouldn't get him thrown in jail . So, he stuffed me into a trunk, put me on some container ship, and the rest is history . "

"Nothing he does is legal, you know that right?"

"Nothing you do is legal either . " Her eyes turned to slits as she snapped her head back in my direction . "Neither of you are fucking saints, you're both going to hell . "

"You think I don't know that?" My face was flat and emotionless as my chest constricted, trying not to get angry with her for comparing Virgo and myself again . She didn't need another man going off on her . Forcing that anger down into my gut, I tried to keep talking about her . "What about family? Do you have any back home?"

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