Chapter 23

Eliana:

I paced around my room as I feared the worst of what Vladimir could plan to be my fate.

The worst being him sending me back home to my family where they would sell me in a heartbeat after beating the hell out of me, and that was something that I couldn’t afford; I hadn’t left that hellhole to return back to it this easily. The anger that my husband showed wouldn’t escape my mind no matter how hard I tried to ignore it, not to mention the fact that I have been locked in this room for a week now.

I had tried talking to him, even tried joining him on the same table. But nothing, not a word left his mouth to me, and when it did, he was either scolding or snapping at me about the same thing. But I couldn’t blame him, in his mind, I betrayed his trust by hiding what I did; he couldn’t see the consequence that I would have faced if I told him about it, or maybe he did, he just didn’t want to deal with facing them.

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