Chapter Title: Shattered
There was a knock at the front door. My heart lurched as I looked at Liara. Was she expecting someone?
"It might be for you," she said quietly, her face already pale. "My parents called your dad to let him know you were safe. They didn't know why you were so upset. If they had, they wouldn't have called him."
She stood quickly and rushed to open the door, her eyes darting to me with a mix of apology and dread. The moment my father's tall, stern figure stepped into the doorway, my stomach dropped. A chill spread through me like ice water in my veins. Of course, he hadn’t sent a driver. He knew I could refuse to leave with someone else. But it was so much harder to say no to him.
Especially after last night.
The ruthlessness I had seen in his eyes, in his voice—
