"You told me you wouldn't!" He roared, "You promised me!"
"Please, I can explain-"
"Shut up! You've lied enough already!"The force of his heavy fist pounding down upon my body knocked the very breath from my lungs, leaving my gasping for air on the cold floor.
"You lied to me Amora, and after all I have done for you!"
He was right.I shouldn't have lied.I shouldn't have done it.My voice was choked by a premature sob."I'm sorry."
***
"No."
A weight dropped into the pit of my stomach, weighting my legs, holding me firmly where I stood.
I should not have lied.If I had been truthful, maybe they wouldn't hit me as hard.-But it was too late for that now, what was done was done. There was no going back.
"Leave us, Emery." Greyson said. He didn't shout, he didn't need to. For his silence w
