My Endless Sorrow
Before I could react, Lucas’s hand shot out, seizing me by the throat and slamming me onto the table.
His grip was crushing, suffocating, as if he truly meant to strangle me.
"You think your debt is repaid? That you can just kill someone and walk free?" His voice was ice, laced with fury.
"The world doesn’t work that way, Lily!"
He finally let go, but the force sent me reeling backward into the wall behind me. A sharp pain exploded in the back of my skull, followed by a warm trickle of liquid seeping down my neck.