Irina straightened her spine as if strengthening her resolve to manage her response to whatever it was Jesse was going to throw at her.
“Let’s start with basic questions. I’m going to ask you easy questions and you’re going to say true or false. If you refuse to play my game or you lie to the questions, I know the answers to, I move straight to torture tactics and I’m fairly sure I can figure out how most of the things in this room work, though it may take a couple of tries.”
Irina huffed as if bored by Jesse’s theatrics.
“I don’t want to play.”
“You don’t get a choice. Talk or I beat it out of you.” Jesse warned her coldly. “I said it before, I don’t like you. I’d love the chance to simply beat it out of you.”
Irina nodded once as she considered Jesse’s last comment, “fine, fine, we’
