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.

the way I had felt helpless, the pain I

down and I thrashed harder against the

happening again, I can't be tortured

the walls around me

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

pounded so hard, I thought it

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through my panic, but the tone did little

he tied me up and then asked

if I was in this

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

stood there, standing a few feet away watching me with

I couldn't stop thrashing

get out. I needed to

over it. Silas

right now, push

Push it aside?

could I do

hours in this position, slipping in and out of consciousness, and I

by my sides holding

you, Katrina, you need to

air, struggling to

about trusting him. He had drugged me and

his reason for doing

so fast it hurt, but I

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eternity, I managed to slow fny breathing. I took

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

with Silas,

and he won't

this in my head like a mantra, letting

tried to shove down the lingering pane and

still thundered in my chest, but at least I could

I became aware of something else

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

taken off my

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

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