TAKEN AS COLLATERAL: A Dark Captive Romance of Submission by Em Brown

Author:Em Brown [Brown, Em]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mafia romance, dark romance, amww romance, dark mafia romance, beauty and the beast
Publisher: Wind Color Press
Published: 2022-04-18T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

And you don’t give away what belongs to me, Rafe had said.

I want to tell him that I’m not his. I’m not property like one of the paintings he owns. But what purpose would my objections serve?

Taking me by the arm, he leads me down the hall to a different part of the house I haven’t explored as much because there are a number of locked doors, many of them using facial recognition as a locking mechanism.

“Where are we going?” I ask, worried that I’m about to pay for trying to enlist Vladimir’s help.

“To a different gallery.”

That doesn’t sound too bad, but I still can’t tell whether or not he’s upset that I was trying to escape.

“Can I try my brother again?” I ask.

He stops to look at me. “Should I let you after what you tried with Vladimir?”

“You want your Morelli, don’t you? That’s worth more to you than me.”

“You can call your brother later.”

“Why not now?”

We continue walking as he answers, “Back in the library, I asked if you would deceive me.”

“And I said no.”

“You shook your head.”

“Same thing.”

“And I said ‘Let’s make sure.’ I’m going to give you a preview of what happens if you do try to deceive me.”

He stops in front of a set of double doors and unlocks them. We step inside and soft lights come on. The entire room is decorated with erotic photography between sculptures of metal and marble.

I’m not really in the mood for art because my mind is fixated on what he just said, but my eyes are drawn to a set of sepia photos of women, mostly naked except for an open robe or a see-through gown, posing seductively.

Rafe follows my gaze. “Those are from the late nineteenth century.”

My gaze travels to several black-and-white photos that show only parts of the body: a man’s chest and groin behind bars, a woman’s backside adorned with what looks to be candlewax, and a cropped photo of a woman with her hand between her thighs. The shadows on the bodies are intriguing, the light perfectly placed to tease and entice.

My body can’t help but react, though my mind returns to the question: what kind of preview am I getting?

“Have a favorite?” Rafe asks me.

“Umm...I don’t know,” I reply as I look over a photo of a woman suspended upside down in rope bondage.

“Pick one.”

I choose the oversized print of two women fondling each other underwater.

He seems intrigued. “Ever been with another woman?”

“No.”

I almost admit that my sexual experiences are pretty limited, but he doesn’t need to know and probably doesn’t care. What does the room have to do with the preview he alluded to?

He stands in front of the photo with the rope bondage. “I like this one for the shibari handiwork, the asymmetrical tie.”

“It looks very uncomfortable.”

“It’s supposed to be. See how one of her legs is free? It’ll get very sore dangling there without the support of any rope.”

Though I can’t imagine being the woman in the photo, she

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