Page 65 of Broken Princess

My pulse began to race. “Yes.”

“Look at this.” He grabbed his phone again and showed me a video. My stomach lurched as I realized what it was. It was him, stalking around Jared’s room at my aunt’s place in Alexandria.

Jared was fast asleep in the middle of the bed, letting out little snores as his chest rose and fell. The camera moved closer and closer until it was zoomed all the way up to his perfect little face. He remained blissfully oblivious to the sinister presence.

“I made this video when I went to steal some of his things to put on the boat after I convinced you to leave Logan,” Jamie explained, observing my horrified reaction with a proud gleam in his eyes. “I thought I might need it to scare you at some point, and I was right. You are scared, aren’t you?”

“You wouldn’t hurt a little boy,” I whispered as the hairs rose on the back of my neck.

“That’s where you’re wrong. I’m not like Logan. I don’t make threats and later renege on them out of guilt,” he said, nostrils flaring. “If you don’t do every single thing I tell you while we’re here together, I will hurt Jared. And I won’t stop there. I’ll go after everyone else you care about too. Is that what you want?”

I swallowed thickly as terror zipped down my spine. “No.”

“So then I am the right man for you,” he said. “I’m the one who knows exactly how to break you, and I’m the one who’ll actually follow through with it if you don’t behave. You understand that now, don’t you?”

“Yes.”

“Good.” He smiled again and moved one hand to his belt. “Now get off the bed and get on your knees.”