n eternity, the baseme

ard the light,

ve you learned your lesson?

ut my throat was ra

to Kylee,"

e a hoarse whisper. "I d

orframe to keep

ur mistake, you can stay down here." He m

cating darkness made me

I choked out, my

a triumphant smirk on her fac

aching, and mechanically re

ked with dried te

und very sincere

was like a whi

up at him

for a second and saw a flicker of something-regret? hesitation?-in E

om the pain. The wound on my knee from when he'd forced me to kne

e was

d me, enjoyi

uard. "Teach her a lesson. Keep going u

numb with disbelief. He w

d stinging. My head snapped

r another. My face was

ling on his sleeve with a show

"You're lucky Kylee has a kind heart,"

g thing. All I felt was a profound, soul-crus

ry," I w

anted. He fed her a piece of fruit, his attention completely on

ehead onto the expensive

rise. "She's still on the floor. Pe

led out, I heard Kylee whisper to Evert

room and touched the

ago, that he would never let anyone hu

empty

f the vanity, my

bruised and swollen. The cut on her forehead

ly applied

" she whispered. "It wil

my face was nothing compa

my phone. The scree

few mor

ally slept. The nightmares that had plagued me for months wer

p knock woke me f