Damian “As soon as I got to the clinic and those doors closed, I knew I’d just stepped into the worst kind of hell.” River continues. “It was worse than anything I could have imagined, Damian,” River looks at me, and all I want to do is take all the pain away. I could with my vampiric abilities, but I also know River needs to heal herself. It’s the only way for my mate to move forward from the pain. “The torture started instantly: electric shock treatment, drugs injected into my veins, starvation, and humiliation. I was there a week before Marta wanted to operate on me. She was the worst type of person, Damian. All she did from the moment I arrived was bully me. She loved to call me names and mock me about looking feminine when I was a man. “I yelled at her the first time she said that

