It was always lust, now it was pure dread. She didn't know how to stand up to Martinez. She feared he would one day decide she was no longer worth it. She would wake up at night sweating guessing if he had decided it was over. She never contemplated he was with someone else. Simple logic told you a man like that who didn't want to be with her, didn't want to have a family, was out finding a new conquest. The frightening part of the addiction for Tanya Carasco was she would have taken him back without question. “The windows must have something different shade over them. It shouldn't be this dark,” she thought to herself. “Bendato?” she said hoping to hear basically anything to destroy the mood of terror lingering in the room. “You must do as I say if you want to see him again,” came a man's voice. She suddenly felt a numbing pain in her back and then a stinging sensation. She staggered forward and fell to her right side. Deftly she twisted her body and caught a glimpse of the man.
