Chapter Eighteen_Ryan

Elena.

Twenty four hours.

The hours did not pass in a blur. Instead, I felt each second, and every minute pass with each stroke he made on my skin. With each taunt Ryan unleashed at me. I blinked against the bright light he shone on my face, my hands and ankles cuffed to a metal chair in the middle of the room.

“What did such a sweet soul ever do to you?.” Ryan demanded.” James loved you so much, he abandoned me for you. He said both of you were about to have a daughter.”

“What?” I asked, confused and a bit disoriented from the gnawing feeling in my stomach.

He hummed, flipping through a folder. My folder. “You seduced him at his lowest point, and got yourself pregnant for him. Then your dad had to make sure you both got married.”

I felt every drop of blood in my body turn to ice, but I tried my best not to show it. Whatever file the Halloways had found on me, it wasn’t accurate. None of what he just said made sense or was the truth in any possible way.

“Is that what James told you?