Aria's POV
As soon as the door shut, the sound echoed through the underground chamber like a death knell. It was just Damien and me. The silence that followed was suffocating, pressing down on my chest like a physical weight. I didn't know what to do at this point. We had screamed until our voices were hoarse, begged until we had no dignity left, and did everything we could think of. But they still left us in that room, abandoned like forgotten cargo in a tomb.
"Oh God, what is happening!" I screamed, my voice bouncing off the concrete walls and coming back to mock me.
I shook on my chair violently, like someone convulsing, my entire body thrashing against the restraints with desperate, frantic energy. But it still didn't loosen the rope. If anything, the movement made it dig deeper int
