Noah's POV The silence in the room felt louder than any scream, my wrists ached where the iron cuffs bit into my skin, and every shallow breath scraped against the knot in my throat, the cold floor beneath me seemed to swallow my body whole, yet my eyes were locked on Adrian across the chamber, his chest rose and fell with effort, his face bruised, blood painting trails down the side of his mouth, but his gaze never wavered, that gaze kept me alive. Jasper stood between us, circling with the ease of a predator who already believed the prey was broken, his footsteps echoed like a drumbeat, steady and taunting, as he tilted his head and smiled, his smile was never warm, never human, but sharp and cruel, as though it was cut from glass, he thrived on the quiet suffering that hung in the air. “You see what loyalty does?” Jasper’s voice dripped with venom. “You see how it weakens you both? I take one, the other bleeds. I strike one, the other cries. Together, you are fragile, pathetic.”
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