Dominic’s POVThe heavy oak doors of my sanctuary remained securely bolted, shutting out the rest of the frantic, burning world, but inside these stone walls, the silence was still a suffocating trap.An hour had passed. The heavy crimson drapes were still drawn against the freezing winter air, and the fire in the large hearth roared, throwing deep orange heat into the room. Yet, she hadn’t stopped shivering. She remained tightly coiled into that defensive, desperate ball at the absolute edge of the mattress, her back stubbornly turned to me. Every few minutes, a violent tremor would wrack her small frame, a physical manifestation of the agony left behind by Calder setting her broken joints and the lingering, icy shock of the cellar.I was losing my mind.I had never felt so utterly paralyzed. I could command battalions, I could rewrite the laws of the realm with a single stroke of a pen, but sitting here on the edge of the velvet bed, I had absolutely no idea how to snap her out
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