I despised this sensation, the feeling of betrayal. I was trembling on the ground, and it felt like it would consume me. So, this is how it would conclude; this is how everything would vanish.

“Babe, do something! She must pay for what she has done!” Vespera shouted in fury.

“Take her away and make sure she can't walk afterward,” Max ordered the men in the room with a smirk.

“Oh, how I would love to see that,” Clara laughed as I was seized and held up. My gaze remained fixed on Eve as she looked at me. I desperately wanted to understand her thoughts, to know what was going...