Chains Of The Heart
Then, very deliberately, he spoke — not gently, but with the precision of someone tearing out poison before it spreads.
“I felt what they did to you.”
Rowan’s shoulders jolted. A shudder ran through him, violent as a lash. His fingers dug into the floor, claws scraping stone.
Damian continued, voice steady — each word a strike meant to anchor, not wound.
“I felt the chains. The cuts. The brand they carved from your skin. I even sensed them trying to slice off a piece of you they had no right to touch.”
Rowan inhaled sharply — a gasp strangled into silence. His body curled tighter, as if folding would make him smaller, hidden, unseen.
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