Ariella’s POV
My eyes cracked open just enough to see the white ceiling of a strange room, but I didn’t move a muscle.
The pain that should’ve had me screaming for days? It was barely a dull throb. Like someone had waved a magic wand over my shredded back. I knew exactly who the i***t with the wand was.
‘Hazel!’ I screamed inside my head, panic slamming into my ribs like a furious storm.
She didn’t even flinch. I could feel her lounging in the back of my mind like she’d just won a damn trophy.
‘How do we get out of this?’ My voice cracked even in my own skull. ‘Are you really bent on destroying everything we’ve worked so hard to accomplish just to please a man? Are you really ready to betray your own blood?’
Hazel whimpered, the sound small and filled with hurt. ‘I’m sorry, Ari… I j
