SERAPHINA’S POV

WARNING: CHAPTER CONTAINS SCENES OF SELF-HARM

I’m petrified for the first few seconds, unable to say or do anything but stand and be horrified by the sight of what I’ve done to him.

I swore over and over again that this wouldn’t happen, that no one else would get hurt, and yet I did it.

He groans painfully, pulling himself out of the indentation in the wall and dusting off the bits of wall debris clinging to his clothes before he looks at me again, more confused and ...