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.

remember the way I had felt helpless, the pain I felt

down and I

again, I can't be tortured

and the walls around me seemed to close in

his hands on me and his cruel taunts overwhelmed my senses.

pounded so hard,

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voice cut through my panic, but the tone

tied me up and then asked

calm down if

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

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

I couldn't stop thrashing

to get out. I needed to

Silas ordered his

fear you're feeling right

Push it aside?

could I

and out of consciousness, and I was expected to calm

hands by my sides

you, Katrina, you

for air, struggling

He had drugged

was his reason for doing

it hurt, but

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to slow fny breathing. I took deep breaths as Istried to

images of Phillip began to fade, leaving me shaken but conscious of where

with Silas,

and he

repeated this in my head like a mantra,

to shove down the lingering pane

my chest, but at least

of something else

realized with a jolt that I

had taken off my

my clothes?" I asked, my voice shaky, I didn't miss how vulnerable I sounded but I couldn't

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