Chapter Sixty-Eight: Embrace your fate, Aurora. Resistance is futile
Aurora's POV:
Note: The chapter will have mentions of physical abuse, briefly.
Phoenix's revelations left the air in the cold cell fraught with tension, his words hanging like a guillotine over my head. A whirlpool of emotions churned within me—shock, fear, disbelief, anger—they swirled into a potent mix that threatened to consume me. His plan was monstrous, so intricately designed that it made me dizzy just thinking about it.
"I can see the gears in your head spinning, Aurora," Phoenix's voice cut through my inner turmoil, his tone dripping with casual amusement.
"Are you trying to find a flaw in my plan? Trying to decipher an escape route?"
His smugness stoked the flame of my indignation. I was a hybrid, part wit
