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her. As a pet, she thought in sarcasm. As if she was a stray cat. 
    Ever since they first made love, if it was love, he carefully manipulated her into becoming a personal sex pet and never accepted her as an equal companion. He had locked her in a golden cage, cunningly cut her off from all her friends, her own self, her world. 
    She could see it clearly now and it caused chills all over her body. God… she had seen the cheese…how could she have missed the mousetrap? How could she have forgotten all the survival lessons she had taken as a child… as a teenager? Was she in such desperate need of love? 
    Obviously , she bitterly thought. He was like a god-given gift. He was unbelievably good, and she has never met anyone like him. She had felt a certain darkness, but she never tried to believe it would seep out and hurt her. She stupidly believed in his words that she would be safe. With him, in his beautiful castle.
    The Castle… she adored the place, but she always had this weird feeling about it that she couldn’t exactly place. Suddenly, it came to her. How could she have missed it? 
    Or had she deliberately tried to block it, because she never wanted the illusion to end?
    Not a single photo anywhere.
    Not a book left forgotten half-read on the bureau beside the bed. Of course he had people that took care of the house, but still… everything was in perfect order, clean, organized… cold. Like those model-houses the estate agencies kept. 
    Perfect, dreamy. No one lived in them until they were purchased.
    His past… 
    No one really knew anything about his life before he came to the city. The vague story that was circulated, about being born by the sea, raised by conservative but loving parents and studied economics at a university in Boston... just didn’t fit. His body as she knew it when they make love was full of scars.
    And that raging darkness inside him was not something acquired by a happy, peaceful life. 
    Only in a place where she grew up would he get to be like that, she knew that well.

Chapter Five
    AND HIS relationship with the press.
    He complained about the paparazzi, but she knew that the press had written barely anything about him, always only about his work and his business. 
    A handsome, rich and single man like him would be eaten alive by the media sharks. They would be publishing photos of him with his women companions to restaurants and theaters, gossiping about his latest conquest. 
    And yet, nothing. The journalists would have had a celebration writing about his newest affair with a simple waitress. Again, not a single article anywhere. 
    That wasn't possible.
    Unless someone has enough money and power to shut people up.
    He's dangerous , she repeated to herself again. And she really began to feel fear, the kind that she'd only feel when she thought about the panthers. 
    She shivered.
    IN THE morning of the fifth day, he texted her.
    “I’ll be out of your apartment at 6:30. Be outside, ready, or I’ll come in and get you.”
    Fine. She would be ready, she told herself once she's gotten over the mixed feelings that assailed her at the thought that he's coming back and that she would see him again.
    She'd get through this, she told herself again. She'd survived many terrible things that would have been too much for someone her age or even older. She would survive this.
    He was right on time to pick her up and so was she, standing outside her apartment building. She got inside the car and they exchanged glances.
    “Are you well?” He was polite and distant. She couldn’t help but notice how tired he looked, but she wouldn’t let that soften her. His face was cold and emotionless but his eyes were burning.
    “Perfectly well, thank you” she answered back, coldly but politely as well.
    NICKOLAS COULD tell that she was different. Her body was full of tension and her eyes were the cold blue of the sky after a winter blizzard. Once again, he wasn’t certain of what to expect from