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.

I had felt helpless,

came crashing down and I thrashed harder against

can't be happening again, I can't be

breathing quickened, and the walls around me seemed to close in on

of his hands on me and his cruel taunts overwhelmed

so hard, I thought it

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down," Silas's cold voice cut through my panic, but the tone did little

he tied me up and then asked me

down if

at my restraints, but Silas didn't come

a few feet away watching me with that same

I couldn't stop thrashing

out.

it. Silas ordered his voice

fear you're feeling right now, push

Push it aside?

could I

position, slipping in and out of consciousness, and I was expected to

my sides

here to hurt you, Katrina, you

for air, struggling to

know about trusting him. He had drugged me

his reason

heart raced so fast it hurt, but I

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fny breathing. I

leaving me shaken but conscious of where I

was with

isn't Phillip and

repeated this in my head like a

I tried to shove down the lingering

in my chest, but at least I could

I became aware of something else my

eyes snapped open, and I realized with a jolt that I was

taken off

I asked, my voice shaky, I didn't

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