Chapter 43

AMELIA

‘ It’s me, Lia. ’ That seemed to have done the trick. The memories I was reliving vanished and I focused on the broad chest I was held against.

He embraced me until my body stopped trembling and I could breathe again. My neck was burning and I couldn’t really remember hurting myself to this extent. I was just trying to get rid of the mark and I couldn’t, no matter how hard I tried.

Tyson carried me out of the shower, wrapped my body in a towel, and sat me down on the wing chair in the corner of the room. I stared at him, finding it unsettling to see him so caring. It felt like I was still in the dungeon and I had made up all these good scenarios to escape what Daniel was doing to me. Maybe, I lost my mind and my touch with reality broke.

But, Elizabeth’s hands in my wet hair, drying them with a towel felt real. And Tyson who was standing in the other corner with his back against the wall, keeping his eyes on me didn’t seem like the fragment of my imagination.

I took my eyes o