Scarlet arched an eyebrow. "You bought me to be your companion and now you're taking a vacation and leaving me as proxy while in the same breath hinting at a veiled threat to the last person in the world I care about. What in the name of darkness is going on? Besides a bizarre reinterpretation of master and slave roles, that is."
She had to figure out his angle if she was going to have any hope of gaining even a scrap of real control in her new life. And she was willing to test the boundaries if she had to. She was, after all, already dead.
