‘I... I don’t...’ Nita’s voice shook. f**k! She was petrified! Just what the hell was going on here?
Marlena made a fist and looked like she was about to ram it up Nita and tear her a new asshole. “Someone got to you, didn’t they? Who? Who?!”
Parnell stepped in, his voice calm, but also filled with menace.
‘Is this how you want to do it?’ he said to Nita. ‘You know you’ll talk eventually, and of your own free will.’
Nita tried to straighten herself up. She did, even though the ropes still held her tight and she still trembled. ‘I have to resist,’ she said. ‘I have no choice.’
‘You always have choices,’ Parnell said. ‘That’s how we do this.’
‘I know! I know,’ she said. ‘But if I don’t... If word gets back to...’
‘If someone doesn’t think you held out to the end, then they would be mo
