Thalia
Xander dismissed me like I was nothing, and the brothers threw me into a sealed room with no windows.
The cell door slammed shut behind me, the sound echoing long after everything went quiet.
“Make the best of your new apartment, wolf,” they mocked before locking it.
I wasn’t expecting freedom from Xander. Not after the marriage contract was signed. I already knew what my life had become.
Maybe it wouldn’t have ended this soon, but I had still brought it closer.
For a moment, I just stood there, unmoving, like my body hadn’t caught up with where I was.
My hands wouldn’t stop trembling. It wasn’t the cold. It was what I had seen.
The schoolyard still wouldn’t leave my mind—the way everything had looked so normal just before it turned wrong. Students moving past each other wit
