| Beyond Cruel

𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐀

LAYLA

Mato relaxed in his seat, and I let out the breath I was holding. My heart was beating so fast that the sound echoed in my head. The fear I'd been walking around with for the last few months was starting to carve me open from the inside out.

I stared down at the vein in my arm. What they did to me, and what they were forcing me to do now was beyond cruel. Because of them, I had no choice. Because of them, I stood on the brink of losing everything. And once the day came when they had no more use for me, I knew in my heart I would never get back what they took from me. I had been sucked in too deep. It was like Daniel said, once you were a part of this world, there was no getting out of it. But I had no choice, and I prayed to God that when the end came, everyone, I cared about would know the truth…especially him. Daniel. The man I would end up deceiving the most.

I stiffened when I felt Mato's fingertips against my back. "I was thinking, since you did so well tonig