Chapter 31
Dori
“Oh God!” I wailed, falling to my knees and cradling my stomach as it lurched with nausea. “Oh God, oh God, oh God. What did they do?”
Tears flooded my vision. Pain split open my chest. And my heart shattered.
But my mate, my one true love, had been stripped naked, his head shaved of his beautiful dreadlocks, and they had brutally nailed him to the wall with these huge metal nails that looked like railroad tie spikes.
A big, bloody gash tore open the front of his chest, dripping drying blood from it.
Bile rose in my throat, and I gagged, sobbing uncontrollably. “Who would do such a thing?”
“I told you,” Valerio snapped, grabbing my arm and roughly dragging me to my feet. “His very own advisors turned on him. Now, we need to hurry and get him down. More soldiers are g
