Her Reckoning
“Locked rooms. His voice in my ear every day. He said I was his. Said my mother was weak. That I was weak, too, unless I let him carve it out of me. Every scar, every scream, every bruise — he told me it was proof I belonged to him.”
Her throat closed. Her eyes blurred with tears. Sierra’s hand brushed briefly over her back, firm, reminding her she wasn’t alone.
“But I remembered things,” Emily whispered. “A name. Elaine. My mother. Kane used her to break me. Said she was nothing. That she gave me nothing. But I held onto her name anyway. Because if I remembered her, maybe I wasn’t completely his.”
Her gaze lifted across the table, locking onto Ghost. His pale eyes burned, grief and fury war
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