LORETTA

I stared at the green dress

The one Elion had chosen that I wore tonight, it was now ruined, stained with splashes of brood

My stomach churned terribly.

I stripped it off my body when Elion left, along side my undies, and as I stood there naked in my bathroom, the weight of everything from tonight hit me all at once.

So many things had happened tonight, but the one my mind could not stop replaying was when Elion arrived

I want to believe he saved me tonight not because of the wedding and whatever it had to do with ‘The Vortex’. I so badly want to believe that...