Chapter 12

Nicholas It wasn’t exactly how I’d planned. What I’d wanted to do was so much more. She deserved more, or she had. It would be up to me to determine if she still did. Then again, it wasn’t her fault she’d betrayed me; it was Warren’s, and I would get my revenge on him. I grabbed the cuffs around her ankles and slid them up her calves until I had them around her knees, and then I pushed the spreader bar so it completely exposed her to me. Her taste still spiced my lips. She didn’t fight me, she just watched me with those wide doe eyes of hers as I prepared her. “I wonder if you’re still drugged,” I mused, sniffing her. The drugs that Warren had used still were present, but were they strong enough? There was only one way to find out. I took my nail and let it sharpen almost into a claw and drug it down the inside of her thigh. Not enough to draw blood, but enough for it to hurt. My eyes remained focused on hers as I watched for any visible sign of discomfort. “Did that hurt?” Erina lifte