Chapter 79

“Let me know.” Alexi’s louder voice startles me out of my trance, and I realise Mico is leaving us. Alexi has his eyes on me, and I cower under his gaze. Mico shuts the door as he goes, making me jump, and I blurt it out crazily.

“Are you going to kill me?” I’m terrified down to my toes and cannot conceal the raw emotion in my voice, visibly recoiling and vibrating all over. Tears bite my eyes. Even though I thought I wouldn’t care about dying downstairs, somehow, at Alexi’s hand, it seems a lot more horrific and all-consuming.

“Why would I go to the effort of saving you if I was planning on doing the same to you? I would have let him take you and saved myself the hassle. Clean up isn’t cheap or easy.” I hate how it all comes out of his mouth, as though he’s talking about his weekly chores. Like it’s normal, nothing, and it’s a minor inconvenience and not the death of a person.

Clean up? Is that what they call the disposing of a body?

Oh, my God. I feel sick.