"I'll go back with you so I can get the chains off, right?" Her voice sounded less emotional and more heartbreaking.

Ezra received a compromising answer from Arabella, but his mind was not relieved, and he still felt a great deal of tightness in his chest, which annoyed him greatly.

"Arabella, don't do this, don't go back with him!" Noah's voice was full of detainment as well as pain and self-recrimination.

He blames himself for the fact that, instead of helping, he became a bargaining chip for Ezra to threaten Arabella, which devastated him.

"Noah, don't blame yourself, I don't have much time left anyway, and I don't want my...