Chapter 20

Mia's POV

That night, I knew that I really made a very narrow escape from the clutches of death, and I was genuinely grateful that Lorenzo hadn’t shot me as punishment.

I decided to wipe away every thought of trying to escape from my mind at that moment.

I knew my life was not something that I wanted to play with. Even though staying in this prison was tearing me apart, at least I was alive and breathing just fine.

After that night when he had spared me, which of course was not enough reason for me to see him in a different light.

He was still a monster to me.

He had the same doctor who had tended to me when I had fainted come look me up again, apparently I hadn’t dislocated my knee but the bone shifted and needed to stay in a bandage for a few days.

I did not see much of Lorenzo at all in the following days and I was mostly restricted to my room during that period as well, which I really appreciated because going outside of my bedroom was not good for my healing knee whenever I walke