Aria’s POV

Of course I’d expected him to be enraged when he learned of the truth the way he did. I expected him to try to kill me as he did in my previous life.

But why did it hurt so much? Why did my heart feel like it was about to be ripped out of me, even while just remembering how he’d grabbed tight to my neck earlier?

I grabbed my chest, my heartbeat throbbing weakly beneath my fingers. I rested my head on the wall of the cell I had been thrown into.

My heart had been hollowed ...