79: Surprise

ADRIANA’S POV

I was everything that explained scared right now. It was like Xander turned into a monster right before my eyes. I knew he wasn’t a saint before and he said the most atrocious things sometimes, like when he said he wanted my fear. The fear I had felt then didn’t hold a candle to what I was feeling now.

My tear ducts have dried out, I was stuck in a desert with no water and the scorching sun, my eyes were burning with the need to shed tears, to cry and scream. But I couldn’t do any of that, fighting my way out of his hold was even more impossible than me trying to force myself to form tears.

“Xander please,” I didn’t know what I was begging him for, or wait, I did know. He said he was going to punish me for trying to run. The last time I did something he didn’t agree with, he locked me up and I almost died.

I didn’t want to be closed in again, it only reminds me of the last time and my chest grows tight, my lungs close in around me until I’m gasping for air. Seeing I was