!!Trigger Warning!!
This chapter contains darker themes, including captivity, physical abuse, humiliation, and references to s****l violence. Reader discretion is advised.
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Elena
The morning came faster than I would have wanted. Two maids slipped in early, offering me thin broth I could barely stomach. They fixed my hair and slid me into a plain white dress. It might as well have been a nightgown for how sheer it was. All the while, four guards stood watch, making sure I didn't try anything foolish.
They cuffed me and wordlessly dragged me upstairs into one of the main living spaces. I secretly prayed that someone would save me, get me out of here before I had to face Vadim again. But who would even bother to come? Thorin, maybe, if he could find me. Jeremy... goddess
