His Destructive, Toxic Love (Jasper and Eliza)

The staff at Mercy Hospital had put her in a single room.

The room was bare, its walls lined with thick soundproofing foam. There was no table, just a rounded wooden bed and a moderately-sized window.

They untied the ropes around her wrists. She rubbed her sore wrists, staring out the barred window at the world outside. She thought she might never see the day she'd be free.

The person who brought her in handed her a clean set of hospital gowns, his face expressionless.

"Mr. Casper wants you to recover here. We'll take good care of you, but you need to follow the rules."

Eliza didn't say a word. She just stared outside, lost and empty, like a canary with its wings clipped.

She remembered the countless nights her brother must've looked out the same way, hoping and waiting for freedom. But in the end, it drove him mad.

seemed to stand still. Eliza's life was mechanical and monotonous: eating, sleeping, watching TV, and occasionally taking a walk after dinner. Most of the time, she just sat quietly by the bed, hugging her knees, staring blankly out the window. The sky was vast and deep, but

came to taunt or mistreat her. After Casper took her phone, naturally, no one knew she

over the sink, her hands gripping it as her stomach churned violently. This had been happening for

thought flashed through her mind and exploded in her heart like a thunderclap. She

her life in

to see you," a voice called as the door opened. Eliza washed her

was led to the visitor's room. She saw Zach and wasn't overly surprised. Besides Casper, he was likely the only one who could

at

than before. Her skin was

could somewhat

man you were so desperate to marry treats you?" Zach couldn't help but

looked at him calmly. "How