Chapter 128: Ayla

A huge rumble echoed through the room, bouncing off the high ceilings, making the walls shake. Harry stopped what he was doing and looked toward the sound. His shoulders instantly became tense and his face contorted into a curious scowl.

“Bare with me, my love,” he said absently to me. “We may have a visitor.”

My heart skipped.

Theo

“Don’t get your hopes up,” Harry snapped. “There’s no way he could have found you. It’s probably some rogue poking around where they shouldn’t be.”

He disappeared into the darkness, the sound of the door closing the only indication he was gone. I waited a moment before pulling at the ring again, trying to work it out of the wood.

“Ayla,” Kylee said to me. “I’m sorry.”

I sighed. I wasn’t in the mood to deal with her apologies. It’s not like they meant anything anyway.

I closed my eyes, pushing passed the headache that had formed.

That was harsh.

And even though she deserved it, I didn’t. I couldn’t carry that pain with me from here.

If we got out of here.

might as well have faced

I’m a horrible, selfish person or

didn’t know he was your fated

as hell knew he wasn’t yours. Are you sorry about that too? For lying to

everything,” she said. “I really

Like I’m supposed just let you have him. News flash, Kylee, I already did that, and look what that got me. When you

and a roof over your head. I kept you from seeing Ma passed out drunk in a pile of her own sick. I made sure you never knew how many times

much that one. Seeing as Ma never would have let them touch you. Oh, but me? Me, she wouldn’t have put up

my mother say weakly. She sat herself up slowly. “How could

it,” I said, looking her in the eye. “You kept letting it get that close. You kept leading those assholes right to our

Kylee whispered in shame.

leaned back against the post, giving

that far,” Ma said. “I knew you would never

have known that, Ma?” I yelled.

“You know that. Kylee needed me more.

you thought that meant I could take

“But you did…”

“But I did. Because you were still my mother. And because I needed to make sure Kylee was taken care of. You both took everything from me. And it

sister’s sobs. Instead, focusing on the cold floor against my skin, the rough wood splintering along my back, the coarse rope digging into my

through my head. I nearly

image came back.

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