Anna's POV Piper and I have spent two days in the hospital. I hate those men for everything they’ve done—for how cruel they’ve been to us and the girls—but I can’t lie, a part of me is grateful. Grateful they brought Piper here when she needed help. If it had been just me, I wouldn’t have cared. I wouldn’t have fought for my life. But Piper? No. I can’t lose her. She wouldn’t be in this state if she hadn’t followed me that night. I still don’t understand why they brought us to a hospital in the first place. After everything—after the beatings, the threats, and the way they treated us like we were less than human—I thought they’d kill us the second Ella told them we were witches. But instead, they slaughtered every girl who supported Ella and spared Mara and Kate. The ones who had tur

