Semua Bab CONTRACT OF REVENGE : Bab 1 - Bab 4

Layla's pov "Please…please…spare…me." The stuttering voice came from somewhere around the corner I was about to turn into. I froze immediately, I expected some kind of shady dealing going on here but now that I was close to it, I just couldn't stop my body from trembling. I had been walking down the corridor for the past three minutes, heart in my throat, fully aware that I was in a part of the Cross estate that I had absolutely no business being in. But the door had been unlocked, and the stairs were just right there, and curiosity, curiosity has been a personal villain of mine since childhood or at least that's the excuse I gave myself for my terrible nosiness. I pressed myself against the wall and peeped into the corner exposing the dimly lit basement. My mouth flew wide open along with my eyes like I had just been electrocuted, maybe I was, by the sight I was beholding. There was a man in a cage, but that wasn't even half the problem, the problem was who it was. I took a de

Layla's POV The car pulled through gates so massive they could have swallowed a small village whole, and I pressed my forehead against the cold glass, watching the Cross estate rise up like something out of a gothic novel that had been forced into modern architecture. It was beautiful in that suffocating, oppressive way that beautiful things sometimes are when they're designed to remind you that you don't belong there. I had been here before, I think once, years ago, hiding in the shadows of my father's car while he came to beg for mercy from the man who had destroyed him. That was also the day he died, or at least the day the man I knew as my father stopped being the same person. I blinked the memory away before it could take root. The car stopped and the door opened before I could reach for the handle myself. One of Landon's men—I really needed to learn their names if I was going to be living here, he stood at attention, gesturing for me to exit. I stepped out into the c