CHAPTER 126

VARYA’S POV

The darkness consumed me, it was stifling. I lost track of the day and night altogether as time turned into a torture of pain and fright. The torment had left my body aching from Tia’s brutalities.

I felt like my skin had been sliced with knives and I was on the verge of going crazy because of her continuous insults and threats. Both physically and emotionally, I was hurt beyond recognition.

Nonetheless, amid all this madness, I held onto that little glimmer of hope hanging by a thread.

I had to survive. I needed to escape.

Kylo’s face is the last thing on my mind, yet it's the first thing I see each time close my eyes. Deep down I knew he was both my lifeline and tormentor in this journey that had pushed me to the edge of lunacy once before even having attempted to break out from within.

Our affair was underpinned by lies but during such moments when life seems unbearable; somehow I find myself going back to those days we spent together.

His fingers grazed over mine as if