Chapter 0694

Unless...

"Let me speak to my wife," I choked out urgently. "I want to at least see her, let her know I'm alive and that I love her before..." I couldn't force out the hideous words, but I didn't need to. "Please," I said, softening my voice a little, "I know you're not so cruel as to deny us closure." But her once beautiful features twisted with sudden bitterness. "Your wife will not be coming here," she said. "There's no need for her anymore. And after the ceremony, you won't even remember she existed. Your mind will be free."

"Free?" I hissed. "What are you saying, Mila?"

Mila smirked. "It's a simple ritual," she said. "With a few spells and some potions, you'll forget your past. Everything you've ever known will be right here, with me. You won't feel any pain, because your wife will have never existed in your mind."

My chest heaved with a sudden fury. I tried to lunge to my feet and reach for Mila, but it was too late; the silver ropes had made me weak. She didn't even flinch.

Rough hands were on me again then, wrenching my arms behind my back to rebind my lacerated wrists with more searing silver rope. I roared in agony until a ringing blow to the head from an unknown source sent me reeling, my senses spinning sickeningly again.

unborn child would now grow up fatherless. I never should have come here, but then

I

my battered body. The fabric was cool against my skin, but it did nothing to soothe the burning caused by the

were finished, they dragged me back to my all-too-familiar cell and threw me down half-conscious onto the icy floor. As if my aching heart wasn't enough

my skin still smoldering beneath my shimmering new clothes, the cell door crashed deafeningly shut. I didn't move from where they had thrown me onto the floor like a corpse. What little strength I still possessed was devoted entirely

outside the silver case again, I couldn't ever muster a glare in

breathed, fiery

delicate hand extended as if to caress my face. I recoiled sharply on

paused, then retracted. Her smirk never faded. I thought I had known evil before now when I had been taken by Selena,

short

slender hands gripping the silver bars of

of sick horror roiled through me. She was fanatical, unhinged, utterly convinced that her plan was righteous when,

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