Chapter 31.

Alyssa's POV.

At first it was just sadness, it hit me continuously as I kept clutching my chest while kneeling.

It felt like someone was trying to rip out all my heart and force me to breathe in a sea of liquid nitrogen before I drowned in that sea of sorrow – the ocean of emotions that hit me immediately.

The ocean of pain that came with it.

The pain I hadn’t known until now, that had been lurking under the surface of every breath I took since I was brought here and since I discovered I have a mate who hates me.

I kept clutching my chest, I could feel the tears that were gathering in my eyes again, slowly spilling onto my cheeks.

Because I was too busy sobbing, too busy feeling the cold seeping through the thin material of my clothes, too busy trying to catch my breath after losing track of time and too busy feeling this suffocating loneliness eating at my bones, I didn't notice someone walk towards me.

I suddenly stood up when I felt a hand on my back, my knees buckling and it thr