After chuckling menacingly, he pushed me away from him, tilted his head, and stared. I stumbled and clutched the sides of a table, holding myself up. I didn’t know what to think. I glanced around the room, seeing the seven other guards blocking all the exits. There was nowhere to run, not that I’d be able to hide from him anyway.
“That will be you next if you don’t answer every single one of my f*****g questions.” He strode closer to me, and I moved back. “Do you understand?”
I nodded. “Yes …”
“Why’d you leave with Ben?”
“I didn’t know that he was … he was running from you,” I lied.
I grasped a chair, pulling it in front of me to put as much space between us as possible. He snatched it and threw it to the ground, moved over it and stepped toward me.
“Wrong answer.”
“I … I left with
