“Do you understand whose girl this is? The barbarian will tear her to pieces for her.”
“I understand. Make it so that no one can find her.”
With horror, I look at the men who are discussing how to get rid of me.
And then heavy footsteps sound behind me.
I turn around.
“No one will find you,” the barbarian says darkly. He’s already here. He came for me. First—to deal with the kidnappers, and then…
In his eyes there’s such wild hunger that it’s frightening to imagine how I’ll have to pay for EVERYTHING.