Chapter 7

First escape

SERAPHINA

Long after Leone left, I sat on the bed, still holding my neck. His fingers weren’t around it anymore, but it still felt like they were. I could feel his breath in my ear, his voice inside my head. Every word he said, every threat, it stayed with me. It was like poison, sinking deeper and deeper into my bones.

He really hated me. I knew it before, but now I could feel it in every part of me. Maybe he'd kill me and send my dead body to ...