Chapter 40

STELLA'S POV:

I have been thrown into the dungeon. No, it's not the normal prisons where offenders are sent to. This one looks more creepy.

It's like a tunnel and as I am pushed towards the entrance, the guard keeps telling me I'd be scathed alive. He tells me that one of the anatomists will be brought to tear off my whole skin till all of my nerve endings respond and I feel nothin but eternal pain.

I am scared. What's the worst word to use?

Terror.

Angst.

I closed my eyes because I know that seeing this place would mar me for life. I should tell them who asked me to do it but I'd still be killed. I might not have been the mastermind of the act but I was the perpetrator.

Selah had used me to do her dirty work with ten grand.

Ten grand.

A huge amount of money.

She had used it to keep me shut, to make me fantasize over the things I would do to the money.

I had always thought about running away from here and living an honest life with