Chapter 61. I’m Sorry

“Are you really going to kill me?” Gennie asked now, not hiding the fear within her.

Lucien looked up from the rope he was knotting, the rope that was in the box.
He didn’t answer; he just continued knotting it.
Gennie swallowed, touching her neck and imagining it already.
She would beg, but she knew he had made his decision.

“Come here,” he told her, and she hesitated, not even willing to stand up from where she sat.
“Gennie...”

“You’re really going to do it,” she started to sob when she realized he wasn’t just trying to scare her.
“Lucien...”

“Come here,” he called again, getting tired of her tears.
“Do I come to you?”

“No.” She shook her head and got on her feet, wiping her tears and taking slow steps to him.
“You even asked Charles to get a fat rope. You think I’m fat n