Mariana’s Pov

One month later.

I’m sitting under the care of a nurse once again. It’s a pain I've become accustomed to. Enduring five months of torture will do that to even the strongest of soldiers.

Get drugged, get beaten, get tortured. . .I’ve held on to whatever last string of hope I had until this moment, enduring the unending torture, begging for death to come and take me to wherever it has taken Alejandro. Still, here I am, with multiple broken ribs, maybe even internal ...