Chapter 26

ATLAS

My gaze bore deep into hers as she struggled in my grasp. I could see the desperation in her eyes as she tried to break free, eyes wide, face etched with fear as her body writhed in the air.

"P-please," she struggled to beg, her words strained as her gasp for air slowed down, her tight grip on my hand loosen as Amelia's voice breaks through my thought.

"Atlas let her go, you..you will kill her," Amelia said in a low voice, but I could hear the urgency in her voice.

Maybe I should, just one tiny twist to either side. I will hear the sound of her bones breaking. She had defiled me, privately and now publicly. She spoke to me without fear.

"Please," Amelia pleaded. Why was she begging for this woman?

I released my grip on her neck slowly, letting her drop to the floor, gasping for breath. Anger still pulsating through my veins, but I couldn't let it consume me. Not in this moment.

"Have her locked in her room, until I figure out what to do with her," I ordered through clenched