“Let me go,” I said between clenched teeth, staring out the windshield at the dark skyline. We had left the city about an hour ago now, I thought, though I hadn’t been paying much attention because I had been trying desperately to get out of this damn rope. He’d tied it so snug that I could barely move. Cristian tightened his grip on the steering wheel and clenched his jaw, continuing on the gloomy road. I jerked back and forth, pounding my body against the leather passenger seat. “Let me go! I’m not going to run off again.” “Where the f**k did you go?” “Out.” “I’m not playing these f*****g games with you.” He turned harshly onto a street that I recognized as that family home he had brought me to that one time he tortured Charlie. “You’re not leaving me. I spent years trying to get y

