Andrei & Jace
This takes place following the events on the ship.
Note: Jace is the man who sold Claude to the traffickers on the ship.
JACE
I WOKE UP with a splitting headache, a bitter taste on my tongue, and something cold biting into my wrists.
Metal. Chains. Of course.
“f*****g perfect,” I muttered, blinking up at a flickering ceiling light that looked like it belonged in a horror movie. Concrete walls. No windows. The air smelled like bleach and something faintly metallic. Blood, maybe. Or rust. Didn’t matter. Not good either way.
I shifted and winced. My shirt was gone. Pants still on, barely. Ankles tied too. Not my first time waking up tied up, but definitely the first where no one even had the decency to take me to dinner first.
“Hello?” I called out, letting the echo boun
