Seventeen

BREA POV.

The air was chillier today and I got an eerie feeling that things were not going to go right.

Days had passed and I didn't know whether to be relieved or terrified of something worse happening. At least I had been left all alone to my device. No collar. No chains.

But every now and then, I could still see the manic look in Nicolai's eyes at our last encounter, and the words he'd spoken as his teeth grazed my heated flesh.

"I will hurt you because it pleases me to"

His words... They never seemed to fade from my memory, and he was the star of all my nightmares. I couldn't stop thinking about him no matter how hard I tried, and not seeing him made me wallow in a dreadful state of anticipation. Why was he just letting me be? After all that drama.

He'd dragged me off to a room, just like the one I'd left, but the new room was much larger, and it was painted a mixture of black and red. Adjusting to the new environment as much as the pain would allow, my gaze roved around the ro