“You’ll be mine—or you’ll stay in this cage, Arina. You probably think this is a joke. Does this place deserve you? No, but you resist. So these walls will be your home for a long, ten years. And I’m offering you an exit.”
“Are you offering to trade one hell for another? How is this prison hell worse than yours? You want to turn me into a toy?”
“And what about me? What will it be like for me to lie down in bed with someone I don’t love— with a person I hate with all my soul!”
“You’ll give in. I promise you.”
I was desperately inhaling the trail of his perfume, so strongly reminiscent of the life they deprived me of. It had simply been stolen. And the one who’s now walking free is the one who stole it.
He’s obsessed, authoritative, and can’t stand losing. And I intend to fight for my freedom—even against the Beast…