Chapter 46

Lucien lay on the bed, and his subconscious took him back to that very day in Mombana. He was in chains after being whipped that morning. His back was bleeding. His feetwere bleeding, where Cone made him step on shattered glasses and laughed while they dragged him in chains through the shards.

Back in chains, he was barely awake. It was one of the hundreds of times he came face to face with death. Cone was still angry at him for killing his guard and saving a girl the guards were raping. She was one of his subjects.

He hadn’t eaten anything in three days, and the torture sessions had him on the verge of death.

Vetta had been in the cage next to him, and even though they were supposed to stay away from him, Vetta crawled from her cage to his own. That was where she was when the guards came. They dragged her by the hair away. 

There was a guard named Coza. He was the cruelest of all the guards. He was the chief rapist who molested both women and children.