Adam and Margarita remained standing in the crowd, like silent statues, watching Caitlyn and Endric being humiliated for the second time. Caitlyn looked at the two of them with a piercing gaze-full of disappointment so deep that it made Adam feel like he was being crushed from within. Endric, on the other hand, continued to struggle, but his weak body left him almost helpless as two guards dragged him roughly away.
"Caitlyn! Endric!" some of the guests exclaimed, but it sounded more like a sneer than a call for sympathy. Caitlyn turned her face away, unable to bear those hateful and contemptuous stares any longer. Her body trembled, not from fear, but from the anger that was growing in her heart.
When they arrived at the dark room where Endric's torture had started, Caitlyn and Endric we
