Chapter 234
She glanced at the handcuffs that bound her wrists and struggled fiercely for a moment. The skin beneath the culls was no longer merely reddened; now it was streaked with blood, yet she seemed impervious to the pain.
Outside the door, the murmurs of the bodyguards continued, while Brielle’s sweat fell in heavy droplets to the floor. Suspended like this, her body was in extreme discomfort, her mind taut. with tension. If she screamed and shouted now, it would only play into their hands.
She bit her lip, keeping silent, while internally she counted the minutes.
Ten minutes later, someone pushed the door open–it was Sophia. A stark contrast to her earlier hysteria, Sophia had regained her composure, like a pot of boiling water pushed to its brink.
Brielle looked up, met her gaze, and cracked a smile. “I knew you’d come back.”
Sophia crossed her arms over her chest, the resentment in her eyes as evident as ever, but she knew her emotions couldn’t touch Brielle in the slightest.
woman. That was Sophia’s
did you think about
for so long, you’re not a pushover. You value
a sharp mind, no wonder she topped the
Tessa’s little henchman, running errands for her. Now that she found herself
not my existence. Unlike you, if those guards left me with just a breath left in me, I’d use
“You’re nothing without Max.”
smile slowly returned. “You asked me what I think I am to Max. I know I’m nothing, but
it’s just
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“You said you’d
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