Chapter 9. Help from the Unexpected

Athena

My wounds did not heal. Not even the slightest bit though it has already been a day.

Usually, they would heal on their own during the day but this time they were drawn deep. They were like the invisible wounds Sebastian has given me all these days.

He was destroying me bit by bit. He was ruining me every day and night. And after what he did last night, the need to escape from him was sowed deep within me.

Last night, the realization had finally hit me—I had to escape his cage, not only for myself but for my soul. He’d already tainted me, snatched my innocence, leave me all shattered and scattered.

And the way his tortures were increasing, I couldn’t even imagine how he’d go.

He certainly had no bounds. He was a sadist.

And after the shower, I looked at myself in the mirror, and unknowingly I found my eyes filling with tears.

The reality hurt more than the nightmare itself. The reality pained me and somehow it pained anoth