Chapter Forty six

Elena's POV

After Valerian's father's declaration earlier today or was it yesterday- I had lost track of time here, and I sunk into despair and grief. The food I had enjoyed some moments ago now tasted like ash in my mouth and my stomach refused to settle down. When he left, I vomited for a while, heaving and groaning over the toilet bowl while I emptied the remaining contents of my stomach.

When I was done, I lay there in sweat and the smell of vomit while my stomach started rolling for a different reason. While I was lying there on the floor, I cried.

I cried for the injustice of this world, I cried out in pain to the goddess wishing she had never allowed me to be born. I had cried out for the cruel hand fate has dealt me and lastly I cried for the girl I was once and the life that was stolen from me by wicked and unjust people.

I later crawled over to the cot, resigned to my fate and awaiting the time that one of the men would come to take me away from them.

I had thought that at l