Chapter 46

Normani

“Why?” Sin asked softly, catching my attention once more. “Tell me, Mani. Why did you run?”

I shook my head. “I swear to you, Nikolai, I wasn’t trying to run; please believe me.” I mumbled out what I said, though I thought he could understand a word I said.

“I thought maybe by now you were smart enough to know that you couldn’t get away from me,” he muttered as he advanced on me. My knees bumped against the bed as I lurched back. His expression was positively homicidal, and I couldn’t help but wonder whether this was the end.

Is this how I was going to die? Was I really going to pass away with my own panties in my mouth and little to nothing on?

“You need to be taught a lesson,” Sin continued as his body pressed against mine. “For breaking my rules.”

When I got near to him, I could make out the tic of his untrimmed jaw and the slope of his nose, which was plainly broken before. When I stared at his steely eyes for too long, which we