Chapter 44

Ella's P.O.V.

I watched in a cold sweat as Cain and my grandfather held each other's glare.

Using the moment of distraction to my advantage, I whipped around and, in one fluid motion, yanked my arm from my grandfather's grip and swung the other one to slap him across the face.

He stumbled away in shock and I took several steps backwards until I ran into something hard.

I turned around to see Cain wink at me.

"I was wondering how long we were going to have to stand there until you did that," he said sarcastically.

I shook my hand, which was now stinging from the slap.

Two of Dinesh's men each ran up and grabbed my grandfather.

"We can handle this from here," Dinesh said.

He began to thrash around in their arms. As he did so, my grandfather turned his head to look at one of the men.

"Would you unhand me?" he said angrily.

I raised a hand to cover my mouth.

"Cain," I said, my voice barely above a whisper.

He leaned in, a look of concern on his face.

"Look at his neck," I said.

Cain turne