Her breath hitched, but she forced herself to snap back, “Then what? What happens now you’ve found me?”

His grin sharpened. “Then, princess… I collect. I promised you back then that I was coming back to get you, didn't I now?”

Silence swallowed her. The weight of his words pressed against her ribcage, her skin, her very bones. The car rolled on, the lights outside blurring past.

And though she sat rigid, forcing her eyes to the dark window, she could feel his gaze on her the ...