Avery
We drifted around the dance floor, and my stomach felt hollowed out. I held my body as far away from Dorian’s as possible and avoided looking at the pitying faces around us. Is this what people felt as they ate their last meal? Here I was, stronger than I’d ever been, but once again at the mercy of a man who wanted to use me. Just as a different type of vessel this time. How was I getting out of this without hurting the ones I loved?
A small kernel of hope bloomed in the desert of my desperate mind. I had to find a way. I hadn’t lived through escaping Kai twice to allow this to happen. Whether he’d felt my posture change or whether the timer had dinged on the schedule of horror we were on, but Dorian steered me away from the dancefloor and out into the castle corridor.
The moonlig
