Gabriella attempted to break away from the men who held down her arms, but she found their joint strength to be too difficult for her to free herself from, and so without the ability to fully mourn, she was forced away from the scene; her heart in tow. Although Alec was not the man who owned her heart or even the one who held a romantic interest in, he had shown her in his final moments of life that whatever they had had meant something; enough for him to risk his life for her. It brought tears to her eyes as she was returned to her confines; only now, finding the cold darkness having reminded her of how abandoned she truly was and the level of betrayal from Mae she now had to live with.
But as her anger began to subside following hours that now brought illumination of a new day into he
