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you’re clever at least. I expected more from you.”
    The hook is roaring at me, it is eager to get on the road, to give it another go. Send me back in, coach, this time I’ll do you proud. I pinch my thigh to shut it up.
    She waits, squints. She must be used to broken people by now. This can’t be her first rodeo. “Well then, to what do I owe the unexpected pleasure of your visit?”
    Here it is. I am on the precipice. I choose the simplest, most obvious parachute and I leap. “I’d like a harder assignment, somewhere else, on a larger scale. This is beneath me.”
    “Beneath you? But you haven’t done anything yet.”
    Lie. Lie big and lie proud. Incorporate truth. “Because it’s too easy. It’s boring. I can be downright diabolical. All that evil Stefan used to perpetrate, that you adored – he learned those tricks from me! Give me something that lives up to my potential. This? Not worthy of me, not in the slightest.”
    She studies me, that infernal pout moist and glinting in the light. “No.”
    “No?” Keep it together.
    “Damon, it’s not boring. Not for me. Eventually, somebody is going to turn up in pieces.”
    “ Me! ” I am likely to crumble any second. “You want me in pieces. I’m the one that hurt you, that humiliated you. It should be me .”
    She sees the cracks. She loves it. I am her clown. “Watch out, dear. Don’t get all riled up on my account.”
    “I’m the one that screwed you twelve ways from Tuesday so Sage could take a walking tour of your head. Elena’s not your enemy, I am.”
    “Indeed.” I’m getting to her, I know it, I feel it. This might work.
    “So hurt me ! Cut out my eyes. Rip out my heart. Compel me to take a never-ending walk on the bottom of the ocean. But leave Elena out of this.”
    “Tempting… I do hate you. But hurting Elena wounds you, obviously. And that, darling, is the essence of the plan. She means everything to you.”
    “But I mean nothing to her.” Truer words were never spoken.
    “All evidence to the contrary. Perhaps if you try harder, love. I believe in you.” Sarcasm drips from her like sap.
    This is not working and I am desperate. I wilt. Nothing to lose, nothing to gain, I am nothing. My voice breaks, it is too soft. “Rebekah, I’m begging you. Take your compulsion back.”
    Her eyes narrow to slits and a smirk blooms on her lips. My desperation has made her glow. The smirk widens to a smile. “I don’t think so.”
    “Take it back. I will do literally anything you want me to but please take it back.”
    She leans back in the chair. “Damon.”
    I am gutted. My knees buckle, they slam against the floor and I am kneeling before her, offering up nothing less than my entire self. “Please.” Check me out, using the magic word twice in one week.
    Rebekah smoothes her dress against her legs as she stands. She slinks over to me. I sway, I shake. I am fighting to stay in one place. I am at her mercy, where is her knife? She kneels beside me, it feels sickeningly intimate again, she traces a line up my arm with her finger, winds an arm around my waist from behind. “I already told you what I want from you.”
    “Anything else. Anything .”
    She fingers the buttons on my shirt, the fly of my jeans. She can feel me trembling, I know it, feel the muscles in my torso thrum against her body. “What makes you think I’d want what you could give me?”
    “I can be useful.” I force myself to turn my head, to meet her eye. I have to be persuasive. This is Elena’s last chance. “You need minions if you’re going to hold your own against your brothers. I’d be an excellent minion.”
    She tugs on my earlobe with her teeth, licks along the edge. “You’re too willful to be a minion, darling.”
    “Then compel me. I’ll kill everyone you want me to kill and fuck you blind every night. Or bring other people around for you to kill and fuck. Whatever you want. Plus, I’m a fantastic cook. Come on, it’ll be fun.”
    She leans