Burning Choice

I�ve been in this billionaire�s game for a month � but something changed when half my competition was eliminated. It feels less like a contest now � and more like an experiment. I shouldn�t have made it past the first round. I don�t know how I did; I�m not special like the others. When I ask Daniel, he just tells me it�s complicated. Then he talks about brain chemistry, how love and sex are an addiction. He tells me how wild animals claim mates, and how he�s claimed me. The stakes are higher. The competition is fiercer. I should have been kicked out long ago, but Daniel tells me I might be the needle in the haystack the company has been looking for. Sometimes I�m afraid of them all, even of Daniel. But It�s like I�m on a tether. I couldn�t leave if I wanted to. **