Chapter 166 ~ Don’t Tell Anyone

{Isla’s POV}

Cayden was tugged roughly to the wooden post where I was standing and waiting.

He was dragged on the floor because his feet were useless. He couldn’t use them to walk due to the lava heat from the Critter Dungeon that had burned them.

He also had blood-stained injuries on his arms and legs, and whip marks from the rounds of vain torture the guards at the Critter Dungeon had put him through. His hair was messy, stained also with blood, and he was really bruised.

Filthy.

The guards dragged him until a few distance from me where they dumped him on the ground. He crashed limply with the clanking of the heavy chains while the guards chained him to the Execution Post.

He looked drained and weak but I knew it was all a facade. He could kill a wild Boar if one was brought to him now.

I covered the distance between us with a short step and held his jaw, raising his head up for his gaze to meet mine. I needed him to see the hatred I had in my eyes for him. I needed him to see the s