Uncovering You 4: Retribution (11 page)

I start to stir, wanting to stand up and defend myself, to face him head on, but he jabs a finger at me and spits, “Sit, Lilly. Don’t you dare move. You won’t be going anywhere for a long time.”

My breath catches. When he said that… his eyes darted to the collar.

Could he mean
…?

Of course he could.

“Oh yes,” he says, a cold smirk twitching his lips up. “You know exactly why.”

I touch the black plastic ring with a trembling hand. He nods.

“Two hours I’ve been home, Lilly,” he says to me, voice soft. “Two hours I waited for you. Two. Fucking.
Hours
.”

I wince with every word.

“You thought that because I was away, our rules have softened, didn’t you? You thought that, since I was gone, you needn’t worry about your responsibilities. Isn’t that right?”

“Jeremy, I’m sorry,” I start in a rush, “I—”

“
Silence
.” His voice is sharp enough to slice a rock in two.

He turns away. “I think we need to go back to where we began, Lilly-flower. I think the separation made you forget exactly who you are. I think—” he twists back, and his eyes shine at me, “—that you need to be left in the dark again.”

Right on cue, all the lights turn off. My heart starts thumping double time in my chest. Cascades of fear ripple down my spine.

I hear Stonehart’s fading footsteps on the floor.

“This time, make no mistake, Lilly. All your earned freedoms are revoked. The collar is back on. I wouldn’t move a foot away from that chair, if I were you. Oh. And one more thing.”

He laughs.

“You should expect a visit from me every night.”

(November 2013. Present day)

Everything is lost. I am plunged back into darkness.

Except this time, Jeremy comes to visit me each night.

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