ie

he ground tilted under me. But I ha

the ass like her father." Lucinda shuddered at the m

He laughed. "Seeing his corpse was so freeing. The shackl

said. "That he left everythi

long," Gl

aughed

felt. They killed my father. They killed the only person that I had because of the debts they owed and I was foolish enough to let

id not know I had heard, they continued conversing. Heavy hands clamped over

ribs. I recognized the voice without t

k hard lump that fo

ld say before pain tore throug

*

usness. My head throbbed badly but I opened my eyes to find myse

nger. "Wake up." Ordered a voi

stare. The low light shadowed his f

in some chamber, I was in a dungeon. Then it all came back in

e. She took my chin harshly and surveyed my face. "Ex

ould not move my body or speak. Panic sl

ly. "Struggling would be a waste s

d, they were go

er voice piped up. "We promise

for this day. You were a leach, sticking to my darling Jamie for all these years. I was fuckin

but to take it, sti

n until Jameson held her back. "That's en

rt more than

already assisted you in writing the suicide letter

who had had his arms crossed in the corner of the roo

cells to comply but my body

es met and I let my tears slip through, hoping I could r

better for us this way." Then she took the blade to my wrist, pierced and pulled so hard. I

was immense and all consuming. She did the same with my other wrist an

ng that he had worked for. There would be no justice. No reckoning for

my brain was in too much shambles for me to pla

ong, to hold on until someone would find me. I could not die like this. Yet, the p

answered my prayers and came for me at last. But then fear

, holding me to a muscled chest. I had heard that death was cold but this body was war

His voice was silk over grave

d into darkness's embrace was, why