MARA'S POV

"Leave me alone", I screamed out as soon as the bodyguards held up my hands. Yes, this time I screamed. I didn’t do anything wrong and he ordered the guards to take me.

Tears of anger stung my eyes as they yanked me down the hallway like I was nothing but a sack of meat. My feet scraped along the cold tiles, my arms aching in their grip. I writhed, kicking, cursing them between sobs. I was tired of being treated like this, like dirt under their boots.

"Take her to the cells", I ...