Semua Bab HE BROKE ME; THEN HE OWNED ME: Bab 161 - Bab 163

~ElenaRosy leaned forward from the back seat, voice low but urgent enough to cut across the hum of the engine. “Don’t go to Thorne,” she said. “You know what he is when he loses control. You know what he did when he thought he had to choose. If he finds you before you have any leverage, he will end you. He will end anyone who has any connection in Isla's death.”I watched the road slide past in a band of motion and let the words settle. Rosy’s hands, always so precise with a cigarette, with a payment, with an insult were fisted in her lap.She was not one for panics, she was one for arrangements. When she panicked, it meant the chessboard had changed.“I know,” I said. My voice was steady. Not brave, steady. “I know what Thorne is and what he will do. I know he loves that boy like a country loves its anthem. I know he will burn the city to the ground if he thinks it keeps Liam safe from me.” I turned my head just enough to glance at her in the rearview mirror. “That doesn’t stop me.

~ElenaI didn’t knock. I didn’t have to. The air around Thorne’s house felt heavy, charged with something I couldn’t name, and Rosy’s hand trembled in mine as we stood by the door.I could feel her wanting to pull me back, to beg me to leave before he saw me. But it was too late for that. Some things in life can’t be avoided no matter how much you run, they wait, like a storm that knows your name.When I pushed the door open, the first thing I saw was him. Thorne stood in the middle of the living room, still as a shadow carved into the wall. Reid was by his side, arms folded tight, his jaw locked. The moment Thorne’s eyes lifted to meet mine, the world seemed to stop breathing.He was holding a gun.Rosy gasped beside me, her fingers clenching mine tighter, but I didn’t flinch. I couldn’t. Not when he looked at me that way. Not when his face, once my refuge, once my undoing, had become something I could barely recognize.“Thorne…” I said softly, but the word barely left my mouth befo