na

t to hungry dogs. My body slid across the rough

und, barely a whisper. I looked at Adrien, my ey

oks like someone's been a bad girl. Adrien wants

, quickly stifled. Someone had seen.

e blank. No emotion. Ju

neered. "Or are you going to pre

clanging shut behind him. The sound echoed, sealin

ougher. "He's gone now, princess," one of them said, his vo

his hand slide down my arm. "Such

kin. I clawed at the door, my fingers scraping against the cold met

t was useless. My nails tore against the concrete floor as I was

bird," the man chuckled

ice raw and broken. "I'll say wha

a dark silhouette against the faint light from the ha

, desperation filling my eyes. "I'll

aching for his pants leg. It was a pathetic sight,

washed over me. The worl

e rhythmic beeping of a heart monitor and the soft h

s to his own wife?" My mother's voic

ng to Adrien' s family elder, replied. "Adrien didn't mea

ly had her... He nearly killed her! And for what

that. The Stanleys are a powerful family. This merger, this marriage, is i

n, flat and cold. "I was merely teachi

arriage to begin with! And then you accuse her of inf

was clear," Ad

Adrien. You allowed Fallon to manipulate you into believing the worst of your own wife. Sh

"I understand." Adrie

aded away, followed by t

A cruel smirk. "Awake, are we? Good. Now y

till gripped me. "You don't believe me, do you?" My voice wa

Alina. It doesn't suit you. You chose to be

shing past the pain. "I only ever loved you! How can you accuse me of

d I know exactly what you did." He paused, his face darkening. "The fact

and he hadn't come near me. Not once. Because he bel

nd full of venom. "The thought of your fil