Let... her... escape?
No. Why hadn't she... thought of that? Why had she assumed she'd outwitted him, when the man was the head of one of the most powerful organizations in the eastern world?
"I'd believe you about what you said regarding your mother," Cecilia continued. "You're the daughter who experienced that life firsthand."
"But even if Jian Yuzhen doesn't care about you as a person or a woman..." She paused, "The fact that you tried to escape at all would anger him. It would infuriate him. And if he's the kind of man you suspect he is, that anger would prompt him to kill you instead."
Linh shuddered violently, her face draining of color.
So... that man had been letting her escape all this time?
Why?
Was it because he felt he could take her back whenever he wanted? Because killing her was always an option, just waiting for the right moment? Because he was so powerful, so in control, that her little rebellion was nothing more than a child's tantrum?
