CHAPTER 208: DUSKMIRE TONIC

SERAPHINA’S POV

I wake up from losing consciousness after being captured, awakening into nothing but pitch darkness around me, with every square inch of my body aching terribly.

The sores and cuts from running through the bushes barefoot at night, and the cut on my cheek from Alice.

Perhaps the one inflicted by someone who was once a friend hurts even more than the rest. The cut on my cheek and the bruises to my heart after they sent me away, knowing I had nowhere else to go.

I want to be angry at them and hold it against them, yet I know I deserve this for the pain I caused. None of this could ever possibly make up for taking Juliet away from them, from hurting someone so precious and bright.

I find myself weeping all over again in the darkness, too sad and depressed to be scared by my dark, unknown surroundings. I thought the pain would get easier at some point, but it only seems to get worse the more I think of her and what I did.

Worse of all, I can’t seem to get Cassand