Trapped.

Selena POV.

I am numb. Not the type where you can't feel your feet or hands, it was more psychological.

I tried to make sense of what he said but I can't will myself to feel anything. Putting the pieces of information together had my head spinning.

My father was alive and Jose had been keeping him, hostage, all this while even if he said otherwise. Even if he said that he rescued him from the prison when it had caught fire. If he truly did that, he wouldn't have kept it a secret, watching her suffer, without saying anything

My heart ached. I felt like closing my eyes and never waking up. It was all Jose. The one I considered family. He stole from Andrei, had my father take the fall for his crimes by manipulating him into signing documents, and the one he couldn't get him to sign, he forged.

I had been hating Andrei all my life, confiding in an enemy, loving him as my only family, and yet he had my father all along. He let me suffer, filling my mind with hate until I was consumed with