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voice.
     
    “Is that what I’m doing?” Sin asked silkily, thrusting sharply into her.
     
    “Yes, and you know it. We share… everything.” The room was starting to spin for Sapphire, taking a horizontal tilt. Am I fainting? Sapphire wondered as she teetered, and leaned forward to grasp onto Sin.
     
    Immediately he stopped, and pulled slightly away to look at her through the cascade of water. “Sapphire?”
     
    He was blurry, rimmed with a million white lights. Sapphire tried to open her mouth to tell him… something. But the thought was lost, and suddenly, he was lost. Everything was lost to her in a split second as the world went black.
     

 
    Chapter 8
     
    “Your friend called you Fire. I think that describes you perfectly.” Sin said softly, his voice trailing Sapphire like a caress as she slowly came back to consciousness. Though a part of her would have liked to stay asleep if the scarves securing her to a chair and the blindfold were any indication of what was to come.
     
    The dizziness left her, making her wonder if she’d really even fainted. Though, not being able to remember how she got from the shower into silk bindings convinced her that she had indeed blacked out. But if she was feeling better, then Sin knew it, which didn’t bode well for her immediate future.
     
    Testing the scarves that held her in place, Sapphire flinched when Sin’s fingers gently brushed her bound ones. She could escape easily, one good tug and she would be free, but that was what he wanted, to see if she would let him have control completely or do what she always did and half-ass it. The need to dominate and control was a trait in a male alpha, one that Sapphire had recognized but refused to accept. If she released herself now, she would be denying a key part of him, and betray him yet again. The bonds were far more than a restraint; they were a test.
     
    “You’ve made your point, Sin. I won’t break the bonds, you have to release me. So please… please.” Sapphire cooed, choosing her words carefully as she listened to the sounds of his soft footsteps on the carpet.
     
    This was yet another side of Sin she’d never seen, not livid, not enraged, but something else. Sapphire couldn’t read him. For the time she’d been passed out gave him time to stew, to cultivate a plan, to turn his blind fury into carefully calculated distance.
     
    “Maybe I was too rough with you.” Sin said, his voice lacking any sort of emotion. A shift in the air, alerted Sapphire to his presence on her left side, a blast of heat made her think he might be leaning over her.
     
    “I should have been gentler with you, cared more. And I can be.” Sin’s tongue licked around the shell of Sapphire’s ear.
     
    Sapphire took a deep breath and was suddenly assaulted with spiced chocolate. Furrowing her brows, Sapphire tried to remember the last time she had scented Sin. It had been so long since she’d been able to get his scent, that she’d nearly forgotten it. But why do I smell it now?
     
    “Because you can’t see, Sapphire. All you’re hearing is my voice; all you’re only feeling is me. I am monopolizing you, Mate. Right now, I am the only thing that exists for you.” Sin said quietly, shifting his position again.
     
    In a weird sort of way, what he said made sense. At the moment, they were in their own world, or rather she was in Sin’s world. A place that she hadn’t been since the day she arrived on the compound, and he'd dismiss everyone to take her up against a banister.
     
    This was his domain, the place he controlled, but she’d forgotten that. And in forgetting, she’d taken that sense of place away from him.
     
    “Are you hungry, Sapphire?” Sin asked her, his voice so soft she thought she might have imagined it.
     
    But the soft slice of peach pressing against her lips made her realize he had been serious. So he’s going to feed me to death? Sapphire thought sarcastically, but opened her mouth