Contract With Big Brother-in-law
I whispered.
She shrugged. “It wasn’t so bad at first. I had a few books that they allowed me, which I read over and over. I dreamed. I meditated, I spoke to my wolf. But it compounds, you know? Eventually, you start wishing for the torture to start, if only so you can feel a connection.”
“But then you came,” Grace went on, gesturing to Nicholas. “You were such a fucking prick. You yelled at me, slammed your hands on the table, threatened me. It was the first real contact I’d had with another person in years.”