Hot tears of regret threatened to spill from her eyes, but Ellie held them back. “I…” She swallowed. "I had no choice. I didn't think they'd kill you, otherwise, I wouldn't have blamed you for killing Jacob. You must ver…" "Believe you?" He narrowed his dark eyes. There was a dangerous sound deep in my throat. “You were turned on by watching my suffering, realizing how cruel you subject me to with your actions." "How did he know I was aroused?" Ellie didn't dare to ask, but she wasn't about to lie to Fury, believing she owed him so much anyway. She pursed her lips. Ellie wasn't sure how to explain to him why she responded so strongly to him because she couldn't justify it. Her body responded to him as a man in circumstances that were wrong. “It's not that I wanted to make you suffer or

