Scarlett’s POVAs I waited for the kappas to return, memories surged up, sharp and painful, like thorns piercing my skin.“Strip her and let them see what’s left of the Vladislav bloodline,” Lucian had sneered, his words laced with cruelty. I remembered standing there, stripped of dignity, pleading for death as if it were a mercy. They had denied me even that, treating me as less than human, as though I were nothing. They’d taken everything, even the will to survive, promising that I’d freeze to death in the North. The chill of that memory washed over me, but I shoved it aside. Those men were dead to me now, shadows of a past I’d buried.The kappas returned, doing as I instructed, and soon, Geoffrey’s back was exposed, bound and vulnerable. I lifted the whip, feeling its weight in my hand, feeling the anger that had festered for so long surge through me. I took a steadying breath, savouring the moment, and then I brought the whip down across his back. He screamed a high, desperate sou
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