We are barely given the food we need to survive, and we are punished for every infraction we incur. It is hell, Lorelai.” She trembled.
“I didn’t know he was this kind of man,” she muttered before sniffling back her tears and dabbing her face with the napkin.
Rage consumed my blood, and with it, the heat, flaring underneath my skin until I was digging my nails into my thigh to stop from lashing out.
“How did you get here?” Derik asked with a frown.
My head snapped to him with a glare as I felt the accusation in his tone. I did not appreciate it, and by my mother’s matching glare, neither did she.
“You wonder how I escaped if he is so controlling?” she assumed, and Derik nodded.
“I would like to know,” he said, holding his arms around his body.
Kai was silent, but he wanted to
