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Chapter Nine
Jackson saw Amy safely to the exam room, where the doctors kindly, yet urgently, kicked him out to take his morning jaunt around the hospital. He rather enjoyed his walks—it gave him a chance to study other people, to watch them, learn their habits. He needed to do something other than mope about in his room and hope that his employers would not come after him for revenge.
But now, now things had changed. Jackson had manipulating to do. Lisa Reisert was finally his—his for the taking, his to exploit. She did not know that most everything was a lie. There was no Amy Alison Adams and she most surely was not her. Jackson had not known Lisa five years ago and had he, he would have made sure that she had never known about his job and married her.
Yes, marriage. It was an odd thing for a former assassination manager to think about, especially about a former victim who had nearly killed you. Lisa was his and he wanted her to be legally his. He wanted to mess with her brain, make her feeble and weak, and sleep with her any time he wanted to. Control was more pleasing than sex, but the domination of Lisa—the complete domination of her against her will or not, was rather interesting to him. Fucking Lisa would be rewarding, and well worth his time. He would enjoy it much more once she learned the truth and realized what was really going on, and if he planned it right, he would make sure she was unable to leave him before she remembered.
He was not above drugging her and smashing her head into a wall to keep her from remembering until the time was right. His revenge had to be exact and rewarding for him. He had always wondered what it would be like to have Lisa screaming his name and responding to his every command and movement. In her current state, she was a docile, obedient dog. He knew that somewhere inside her lurked a fierce predator, ready to pounce on him and rip this throat out. He wanted the best of both her sides—he wanted control, yet he wanted her to fight him.
That's why Lisa Reisert was so intriguing—she fought back, she fought his control. She was only one to ever keep fighting time after time. She was strong-willed and he loved her for it. Well, not exactly loved, more like admired. But he wanted that iron will of his to break and crumble due to him. He wanted to bend and shape her to suit his needs.
He was going to dominate her the best way he knew how and destroy her from the inside out. He would convince Amy that he was this other Jackson; that they had this past together and loved each other. The foundation of the trust building was already there and she hated to leave his side now. She was right where he wanted her.
Now, he had to convince her to marry him. The sooner, the better. He wanted her to have a life with him before her memory returned. He wanted to repulse her thoroughly and force her into an emotional breakdown.
What better way to destroy Lisa than to make her believe that she was in love with the man who nearly killed her, be married to him, make love to him, and trust him, only to find out that it was only a sick, twisted mind game? It was cruel, but so was being stabbed in the windpipe with a pen, the thigh with a high heel, and then being shot twice? That was all without mentioning the blows to his egotistical male pride and the numerous other bruises that he had suffered. Nearly being killed by a girl did not belong on the résumé of a highly trained and skilled assassination manager.
Jackson Rippner would get his revenge. He was going to have his fun. Lisa Reisert was going to squirm like a tiny ant being fried under a magnifying glass in the hot summer sun before he was finished. Her destruction would give him a much needed ego boost.
He could not wait.
Author's Notes:
Jackson's got a sick and twisted mind. He really does. It's all a game to him and the prize is hurting Lisa. Sorry that it's a short chapter, but it kind of needs to stand on its own. In the next chapter, Jackson's going to be proposing to Lisa and speeding a marriage along. He knows that it's only a matter of time until she figures it out or before Joe does. Enjoy!
