“What about laws?” I demand. “The ones that govern this country?”
He smirks. “Those laws don’t apply to me.”
He moves forward at lightning speed. I stumble back against an ornate oval table in the center of the foyer.
“I say,” he hisses. “As far as you’re concerned, my word is law. Forget everything else.” He glances over his shoulder at the gorilla man. “Never mind. I’ll take her myself.”
With that, Aleks grabs my arm hard and drags me forward. We move up a floating staircase to the second floor. Then he veers down a hallway and pulls me through a nondescript doorway.
The whole way here, I expected him to drop me in a rat-infested dungeon under the house. But the room is… nice. Lovely, actually.
A king-sized bed sits in the center, covered in an off-white duvet that looks light as a
