~LUCAS~
I could not f*****g move my body. Even trying to shift my head was so painful that it required a lot of my energy to be done.
I didn't like being this helpless, especially in front of Freya.
The Blackners were always experimenting in labs, creating things like this to attack their enemies, and they were damn good at it.
Freya was trying her best to protect me, but I did not want her to be punished on my behalf like the last time.
I would not be able to forgive myself. I hadn't even been able to forgive myself from the last time she was hurt because of me.
It also hurt to know that while I was protecting Avery from those men, my wife was battling a maniac on her own. It made the guilt within me feel a hundred times worse.
I didn't think that Gideon would be so sly as to
