Kalliope’s POV:
Seeing Heidi and Angel standing in the room makes me feel cold all over instantly, almost as if I’d been dropped into icy water and left to freeze to death. Only the feeling was inside, my outer composure unchanging since I was too tired to offer up another alternative to how I was feeling before the two returned.
Kessal, Dana and Braeden’s eyes remain on me the longer I don’t manage to move to sit up after whatever happened to me and Kessal before since he’d managed it before when I’d fallen back onto the floor as my muscles were now too weak to support me. Yet somehow I clung to life, and not out of wanting to either. It was just that some core part of me refused to blink out and die, even if I’d just wake up a few hours later in full health to be tortured again. Someth
