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“You …”

There was a very subtle shift in his jawline, as if his teeth clenched inside his closed uess you aren’t that stupid after all”

“I won’t cooperate” He’d takena rapist, a murderer, and a liar, and vowed to killfor him, not to save my own life

“You will”

“Torture me all you want Won’t make a difference”

“I won’t have to torture you”

My eyes shifted back and forth as I stared

He looked back to the hallway “Because you’ll want to do it”

FIVE

Ivory

Days passed

Very long and cold days

It wastreks ordless conversations, frozen nights when I shared the bedroll with a naked th in his body than an ox and a horse combined

I didn’t take a peek again, but it wasn’t as if I’d forgotten what I’d already seen

How could I forget?

I’d been with a handful of men, but none of theuards at the castle weren’t built with the same muscularity Mastodon dwarfed each and every one

There was finally light at the end of the tunnel It was subtle, but it was there

“Oh, thank god”

Ian held the torch in the lead “You say that now…”

“I’er for the summer sun on my skin

The light grew brighter and brighter, a beacon of warinning of the journey had been filled with fear because I’d been captured, but then it had turned into fear for different reasons Being underground…was torture No sun No trees No sky It was unbearable

But as we came closer, the heat didn’t carry on the breeze and hit me in the face

It stayed cold—ice-cold

The white light grew brighter and brighter,my eyes wince and smart My hand raised in front of my face to make it more bearable, to cast a shadow over ht in front of me