Chapter 312

I could hear the ocean water slouching against its bank not far ahead, beyond this room. Its breeze wafted past my nose, turning my good memories into a nightmare.

My face hurt where he had hit me, my body trembling slightly. Despite my defiance—the biting and cursing I had used as a front—fear ate at me, pulling me into a black hole I couldn’t escape.

Hopelessness.

They weren’t mainly after me. Nico was their target, and they knew the only way to make him docile was to take me. They knew I was his weakness.

Tears stung my lids, and I blinked them back. I couldn’t let them see my weakness. I hated how his eyes lit up when he saw the pain in mine after Nico agreed to his deal.

Even as he sat opposite me, where I was tied to a chair, the ropes biting into my skin, he looked for a sign of weakness. Bold of him to assume I would give him any.

A goon walked into the room, followed by Alessandro, who found it hard to look at my face even now. Instead, h