Page 81 of Cruel Possession

I pull it out, seeing Zoe’s name on the screen. “Hey.”

“Hey.” She sounds breathless. “Remember how I told you that I was going to have a surprise for you?”

“Yes. And I told you that you didn’t need to do that. I have work to do, and I would rather finish with my day and find you naked in my bed upstairs.” I lean back in my chair, cock already pulsing at the thought of what I’m going to do with her the moment I get her alone later.

Zoe sighs. “You’re not going to miss your surprise.”

“I appreciate the effort you put into this, but I don’t like celebrating my birthday.”

“Fine, then come celebrate the fact that I got you the best present you’re ever going to get.”

“You’re not naked and bent over my desk with a bow on your ass, so that can’t be true.”

Zoe laughs, the sound warm and making my chest swell. “I’m telling you I have a surprise, and you need to see it. It’s going to be the best one you’ve ever gotten, which is why you’re going to go to the address I just texted you.”

“Oh, am I?”

“Yeah, you are, and if you’re lucky, I might even be naked with a bow on my ass."

"Well, when you put it like that, how could I resist?”

She hangs up, still laughing.

I check the address on my phone before swiping my keys from the corner of my desk and heading out to the garage.

If she went to the effort of planning a surprise for me, then the least I can do is show up and see what she has planned.

Zoe is fully clothedand smiling when I open the door to the abandoned police station only to be met with the smell of dust and mildew. She struts over to me with a smug little smile and loops her arms around my shoulders, pulling me into her.

“Happy birthday.” She brushes her lips over mine. “Are you ready for your surprise?"

I glance past her at the desks that have either been overturned or broken. “Well, it doesn’t look like I’m going to be bending you over anything right now.”

She takes me by the hand, lacing her fingers through mine. “Come on. I have something to show you, and I know once you see it, you’re going to be excited.”

I roll my eyes. “Shouldn’t you blindfold me or something?”

“Kinky.” Zoe tugs me down the hall. “This is better than getting kinky in an abandoned building, though.”

“I don’t see how that’s going to be true, but I’m willing to play along.”

She snorts and tugs me a little faster, pulling out her phone and using it as a flashlight, leading the way down one hall and then another until she comes to the cells lined up at the back of the station.

Most of them are open, papers tossed around the floor. A couple are closed, but there’s nothing in them.

And there, at the last one, lit up by a work light, is Logan Vitale tied to a chair.

Logan looks at me, shouting against the gag in his mouth, rocking on the chair like he thinks he’s going to be able to free himself.

I don’t see a world in which that’s possible, though. The ropes tying Logan to the chair are tight. He looks like a sausage trying to escape the casing.

Zoe looks up at me, beaming, her smile stretching form one ear to the other. “I told you I’d have a good surprise for you. I know you’ve been looking to get some revenge for all he’s done to your family, and I thought I could bring him to you.”

I shed my jacket and toss it to the side before unbuttoning my sleeves and rolling them up. “This might be the best gift I’ve ever been given. I don’t think anyone has ever been this thoughtful.”

“It’s extra special because guess who left the bloated guy at your door.”

My eyes widen before they fly to the piece of shit tied to a chair and then back to her.