Semua Bab Only in Vegas: Claimed by the Devils Son: Bab 111 - Bab 113

The dream didn’t feel like a dream. It felt like he was going through it all over again, but this time he knew exactly what was going to happen. Daniel stood outside the bar, rain soaking through his hoodie, the taste of cigarette ash and bourbon lingering on his tongue. His phone buzzed in his pocket again, it was Mia. Her name was lit up like a warning sign, like something sacred he didn’t deserve to touch anymore. Not after what he had just found out. Inside, the music pounded like a second heartbeat. He barely remembered walking in, barely remembered the way the whiskey tore his throat to bits or the way he’d started shouting at the guy next to him for bumping his shoulder. Everything blurred after the fourth drink. Just flashes. Dark and dreary lights. A set of fake lashes and a warm hand pulling him into a cab. When he woke up, it was the sunlight that hurt the most. Blistering and invasive, making everything too clear too fast. A pounding head. A strange ceiling. And a woma

The cell door clanked shut behind her, the sound echoing like a tomb sealing. Mia didn’t flinch. She refused. She had been practicing. Getting good at not flinching. Not when the world yelled at her. Not when they yanked her by the chain. Not when orders snapped in the air like whips. Not even when bruises bloomed across her ribs like spilled ink. She had been breaking, rebuilding, breaking again, and now, she had learned to stand still through it all. The pain had become a rhythm, a metronome in her chest. A counting device for survival. She measured herself in breaths, in heartbeats, in the quiet moments between the shouts. The other girls barely looked at her anymore. She had risen in the hierarchy of pain: too pretty to pity, too valuable to befriend. Too dangerous to underestimate. Except for Anna. And one of the newer girls. Her name was Kat. Maybe Katherine. Maybe not. She was nineteen, pale, brittle-boned, and looked like she had once lived in a house with hot cocoa an