Elowen's POV
Dread slammed into my skull. That was the first thing that slammed into my chest when I heard the commotion—the heavy footsteps, the sudden shift in energy that could only mean one thing.
Kade was here.
But underneath that suffocating dread was something else, something I hated myself for feeling—relief. A twisted, desperate relief that maybe, just maybe, he would see through this madness and save me from this nightmare.
How pathetic was I? Hoping for salvation from the same man who would probably drive the knife into my heart himself once he learned the truth.
My body trembled violently, not just from the excruciating pain of the acid eating through my flesh or the whip marks that had shredded my back into ribbons, but from the terror of what was about to happen. How wou
