"Please... James, I'm begging you, let me go!" Grace pleaded over and over. "Oh? So you know what pain feels like now? But when Emily was hurting, weren't you watching like it was a show?" James sneered. He took out a pill, eyes cold as ice, then yanked her hair to force her to look up. Without hesitation, he shoved the pill into her mouth. Grace's eyes widened in terror as she tried to spit it out, but James wasn't about to let that happen. He grabbed her throat, forcing her to swallow it. She started coughing violently, trying desperately to get it back up. Was this poison? Was he trying to kill her? "Grace, you think I want to kill you? That would be too easy," James gave a twisted smile. "Dying's a mercy. You haven't even started to pay for what you did." "What the


