Chapter 287

Xena's POV

The jagged metal trembled inches from my chest. But I could feel how frail she'd become whatever they'd done to her in that dungeon had left her body broken.

"You FUCKING WHORE!" she screamed, spittle flying from her cracked lips.

1 managed to twist my body, using my leverage to roll her off me. The movement sent agony through my injured ribs, but adrenaline numbed the worst of it. As she scrambled to regain her position, I grabbed her wrist with my right hand and slammed it against the tile floor.

The makeshift weapon clattered away, spinning across the wet surface.

Martha clawed at my face with her free hand, her nails raking across my cheek. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you all!"

YOU MOTHERFUCK, I growled, driving my knee up into her stomach.

She doubled over, gasping, and I used the momentum to flip her onto her back. Before she could recover, I wrapped my right hand around her throat and squeezed just hard enough to cut off her air supply.

Her eyes bulged as she clawed weakly at my grip, her movements becoming more and more sluggish. Within seconds, her body went limp beneath me.

hard and trembling. My heart hammered against my ribs as the reality of what had just happened crashed over me. Martha had been here, in this room, trying to

in a rapid-fire assault, making it hard to breathe. I reached

"Ama," I called.

Her

just attacked me. I knocked her

hurt? Are

fine, I assured her, though my voice trembled. "I'm

cold, and I need someone to help

Ama's panic was evident even through the mind

"Thank you."

forgot to close the door. If something had happened to you, I would never

to calm her

the door with Penelope and two female warriors close behind. They rushed into the bathroom, and Ama's eyes immediately filled with tears when she saw me sitting on

her voice breaking as

her as she guided me to the sofa in the main room. Once I was seated, I reached out and gently touched her head, offering what comfort I

two warriors, gesturing

got to work, bigding Martha's hands and feet with rope they'd brought. Penelope watched them work,

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