It had been a very long night.

Dave didn't know why he'd even bothered to try to sleep. He'd gone over and over everything Anissa had said and everything he thought he knew about the Djinn. Only four facts were clear in his brain. She was real. She was here in his house. She wasn't here by choice. And he didn't get to fuck her.

She'd called herself a captive of the box. She'd even said straight out that she was a slave. Whenever somebody solved the puzzle box, Anissa ...