Chapter 35

Amelia awoke to the sound of the elevator bell, and for a moment, felt panic that she had fallen asleep and missed Rikash s return for the day, until she realised that it was morning and Rikash had gone on some mysterious mission leaving Nadyr in his place. She heard Nadyr s voice as he answered the door, picking up a word here and there, and the rattle of the cart crossing the room. The morning meal being delivered, she identified the sounds, intrigued by the delivery. Rikash normally fed her rations for the first meal of the day, interspersed with sex. She lay in the bedding that did not carry his scent and realised that she missed it, her heart quickening and her chest tightening. What was wrong with her, she thought, that she would miss her captor? Miss the feel of his body against hers, miss the scent of his skin and hair? He would not be missing her, she knew. If he missed her at all, it would be missing, as the blonde woman Verika had said, the hole which he rutted in