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.

had felt helpless,

came crashing down and I thrashed harder against the

happening again,

breathing quickened, and the walls around me seemed to

his cruel taunts overwhelmed my senses. How could I be put

so hard, I thought it

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panic, but

he tied me up and then asked

couldn't calm down if I was in this

down, Silas," I gasped, pulling at my restraints, but

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

I couldn't stop thrashing

needed to get out. I needed

it. Silas

feeling right now, push it

Push it aside?

could I do

tortured for hours in this position, slipping in and out of

my

here to hurt you, Katrina, you need

gasped for air,

know about trusting him. He had drugged me

his reason for doing

but I forced myself to focus on

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after what felt like an eternity, I managed to slow fny breathing. I took deep breaths as Istried to control my though pushing away the terrible

leaving me shaken but conscious of where

with Silas, not

isn't Phillip and

head like a

shove down the lingering pane

thundered in my chest, but at least

of something else my skin

open, and I realized

had taken off

shaky, I didn't miss how vulnerable I

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