Chapter 79

ADRIANA

I was everything that explained scared right now. It was like Xander turned into a monster right before my eyes. I knew he wasn't a saint before and he said the most atrocious things sometimes, like when he said he wanted my fear. The fear I had felt then didn't hold a candle to what I was feeling now.

My tear ducts have dried out, I was stuck in a desert with no water and the scorching sun, my eyes were burning with the need to shed tears, to cry and scream. But I couldn't do any of that, fighting my way out of his hold was even more impossible than me trying to force myself to form tears.

"Xander please," I didn't know what I was begging him for, or wait, I did know. He said he was going to punish me for trying to run. The last time I did something he didn't agree with, he locked me up and I almost died.

I didn't want to be closed in again, it only reminds me of the last time and my chest grows tight, my lungs