Shatter Me- Chapter Nine- Pretty Pretty Please Will You Torture People?

This chapter begins with Warner...well, I'll just quote it.

"'You are kind of a pet project of mine.' Warner smiles to himself. 'I've studied your records for a very long time.'"

Warner, you know I'm rooting for you, but just...

...Anyway, he goes on to explain that he put Adam with her as a cellmate to prove that she was able to interact with people.

He toys with the idea that Adam would be permanently supervising her, an idea she pretends to hate. Of course, Adam's still looking like an idiot in the corner.

Fortunately, he still does care about her, so it's very fortunate...for several reasons, that he's put in charge of her.

I'm skipping some rather useless dialogue, by the way, so if that matters to you, sorry. The main point: Warner wants Juliette to torture people for him, and he threatens to kill her if she doesn't. Not that he would, of course, he's in love with her already.

This chapter ends with him tossing Adam some gloves so he can touch her (even though he doesn't actually need them), touching her face a bit with his own gloves (even though he doesn't need them either), and then telling Admam that she's "his charge now."

I plan to post the next chapters of both this and The Night Circus later today. Enjoy it.