Chapter 108

Eliana POV

Hours passed and I could tell that the sun had set, the light which had slipped through the cracks around the door had disappeared and the shed was plunged into darkness.

After finally succeeding in getting the collar off of my neck, I'd spent a few hours trying to pry out the screws which held the door's hinge in place. It was a pointless task and I only succeeded in breaking all of my nails, the tips of my fingers now raw and bleeding. Cassie would have been appalled at the state of my nails, but desperation held fast.

I knew that there was no way that Luca would be able to track me down. He would be looking for Marco, not a lowlife like Wilson.

The threat of the greasy, rotten toothed man forcing himself onto me made my stomach knot. It was something I didn't even want to think about, and yet it kept recurring in my mind.

“Honey, I'm home,” I heard cold laughter outside of the door as the lock on the door was opened noisily and the bolt was unlatched.

I swallowed the