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

and I thrashed harder

again, I can't be tortured

around me seemed to close in

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

heart pounded so hard, I thought

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cold voice cut through my panic, but the

me up and then asked me to

couldn't calm down if I was in

at my restraints,

away watching me with that same detached expression he always

I couldn't stop thrashing

get out. I needed

it. Silas ordered his voice

you're feeling right now,

Push it aside?

could I do

and out of consciousness, and

hands by my

hurt you,

air, struggling

trusting him. He had drugged me

reason for

but I

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what felt like an eternity, I managed to slow fny breathing. I

Phillip began to fade, leaving me shaken but conscious of

was with Silas,

and he won't

this in my head like a mantra, letting myself

eyes shut, I tried to shove down the lingering pane and the

in my chest, but at least I could breathe

a moment, I became aware of

I realized with a jolt that I was

had taken

I didn't miss how vulnerable

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