It had been a very long night.
Dave didn't know why he'd even bothered to try to sleep. He'd gone over and over everything Anissa had said and everything he thought he knew about the Djinn. Only four facts were clear in his brain. She was real. She was here in his house. She wasn't here by choice. And he didn't get to f**k her.
She'd called herself a captive of the box. She'd even said straight out that she was a slave. Whenever somebody solved the puzzle box, Anissa was released, forced to grant three wishes to the lucky winner and then she vanished back into the box until somebody else solved the puzzle. Sounded like a hell of a deal for the wisher, not so great for the Djinni.
So what was he supposed to do? Hold off on his wishes, so she could stay here indefinitely? She'd said there
