MATED TO MY BROTHER'S ENEMY
“If you hadn’t, you might’ve missed just how deep the rot went. How planned out it all was.”
And right then, through their weird psychic bond, she caught this surge of stubborn hope from him, like, yeah, they’d been tortured, but it wasn’t for nothing. If Kael wanted to break them, he’d just welded them together instead.
She glanced over at the others, his pack sprawled out, finally looking like regular people instead of haunted wrecks. “The others are getting there too,” she muttered, nodding at the sleeping forms. “That corruption wasn’t picky. It touched everyone, not just the ones who got chained up.”