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My gaze becomes steely. “She won’t get the chance. If she thinks that Eden is weak, then she’s wrong. He’s the strongest of us. I have faith that he can hold on.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Heaven Cottage

Eden

Sluggishly,my eyes blink open. For a moment, my vision is blurry.

My head aches.

Confused, I panic.

What happened?

Where am I?

I can’t remember.

I can’t…

My head, swollen eye, and busted lip throb. There is a sharp pain in my chest every time that I breathe in a way that I recognize as a broken rib.

I’ve been beaten.

Instantly, I feel sick.

The Man and Woman must have been playing with me again.

Am I back in the Room?

Where’s my brother?

What if they’ve taken Shay, while I was unconscious and unable to distract their attention onto kicking my arse, rather than his?

“Shay.” I work to sit up.

But then, I struggle wildly when I discover that my hands have been bound with rough rope in front of me.

I growl, ineffectually trying to wrench them apart with a grunt. My skin is rubbed raw.

The ropes, however, hold firm.

My muscles are too weak, and I can’t coordinate my efforts properly.

“Hey, stop that,” a voice that isn’t Shay’s (but yet is familiar), says. A small hand rests under my shoulder, before helping me to sit more securely with my back against the wall. “Or you’ll break something, and that’ll be boring. I didn’t beg my Mistress, as well as promise to buy her a new Porsche tomorrow, in order to change you out of being bound clumsily by my belt into this rope just for you to injure yourself anyway.”

Slowly, my vision clears, as does my confusion.

I’ve been kidnapped by Blythe.

Adrenaline shoots through me at the same time as a roar of rage.

My eyes darken, but my expression remains mask-like.

My brother will come back from the arena to find me missing.

My heart clenches.

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