Chapter

42

I woke with a gasp, my heart pounding in my chest.

Where was 12

I tried to figure out what happened the previous day and where could have been, but everything seemed to be in a daze.

I still felt dizzy, and I struggled to keep my eyes open.

Different thoughts ran through my mind, all of them in a jumbled mess.

It took a while for me to clear my head and the confusion I felt lifted slowly.

That was when it all came to me.

The ball last night, meeting with Father and Silas drugging me.

1 cussed loudly,

I passed out after Silas had drugged me, how long was I out for

And I was more upset about the fact that Sikas had spiked my drink, and I took it.

I never expected that.

How could Silas drug me?

And the way he stared at me like I had meant nothing to him before I finally went unconscious

And maybe I did meet nothing

I tried to pull my hands but then I realized the tightness in my wrists and ankles.

Panic gripped me when I realized I was tied, my arms and legs spread apart, leaving me helpless.

Just like that day.

No. No, not again.

Not again, please.

1 thrashed against the restraints, the feeling of being bound throwing me back to the day Phillip had tortured me.

way I had felt

crashing down and I thrashed harder against the

be happening again,

around me seemed to close in

of his hands on me and his cruel taunts overwhelmed my senses. How could I

hard, I thought it might

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Silas's cold voice cut through my panic,

had he tied me up and then asked me

down if I was in this

I gasped, pulling at my restraints, but Silas didn't

there, standing a few feet away watching me with that same

I couldn't stop thrashing

to get out.

it. Silas ordered his voice

feeling right

Push it aside?

I

in and out of

my sides holding me in

here to hurt you, Katrina,

for air, struggling

about trusting him. He had drugged me

his reason for doing

fast it hurt, but I forced

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fny breathing. I took deep breaths as Istried

began to fade, leaving me shaken but conscious

was with Silas,

and

repeated this in my head like a mantra,

I tried to shove down the lingering pane

still thundered in my chest, but at least I could

became aware of something

realized with

taken off

didn't miss how vulnerable I sounded but

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