Serena I pleaded with Arthur with tears in my eyes. I hated this, I hated the feeling of being overpowered, I hated feeling weak and helpless, but the thing I hated most were tears. I felt tired, so f*cking tired of being weak, and letting myself be at the receiving end of evil, f*cking tired of people betraying me, the people I once thought I could trust, the people I felt a connection with, thinking they could just hurt me and get away with it made me boil with anger. But this time, I am not going to stand there and watch as something bad happens to me and my family, or wait for someone to come and help. For some reason, Arthur's betrayal hurt the most, more than my father's or Lord Edwin Vincent. I wasn't even surprised when father tried to strangle my mother, because I had witne

