But maybe he was just that desperate.
Maybe there was someone whispering to him that I actually did have these secrets that I didn’t have.
Maybe it was something else. Something I hadn’t predicted yet. Not every plot twist could be predicted, after all, not even when the pen was in my own hand.
But I had to hold my tongue. I couldn’t bite back, I had to be a good pup.
So, I swallowed down the words I wanted to say, and found his unwavering eyes. “I am Olivia Rose, I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Claimed,” I said hoarsely.
His brows furrowed in irritated confusion. “What?”
“I am Olivia Rose,” I repeated, trying to put strength into it. “I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Claimed.”
“I don’t know what that means.”
My heart was thudding against my ribs, it hadn’t really stopped doing that in days. “I am Olivia Rose, I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Claimed.”
“Stop that,” he demanded.
“I am Olivia Rose,” I said again, my throat burning. “I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Claimed.”
Isaak snarled and turned to the man. “Hose her down, it reeks in here.”
“I am Olivia Rose, I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Claimed,” I shouted as he turned for the door.
“I am Olivia Rose!I am a writer, I am unbreakable,I am Claimed!”
The man stepped forward and pointed the hose right at me.
I locked eyes with him. “I am Olivia Rose, I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Cl—”
The water hit me like a cannon. Ripping me against my chains, my feet hitting the wall behind him.
I cried out, my clothes ripping off me, my skin burning, my cuts reopening everywhere that whip had hit me, everywhere Lillian’s knuckles had split my skin.
It felt as if a stream of rocks were being pelted at me at 100 miles an hour. I felt as if my skin was ripping from my bones as he lifted the stream towards my chest, my hands tearing in the chains.
I screamed, trying to turn my head away, snapping my mouth shut when the water hit my face, ripping my hair back.
I couldn’t breathe.
I couldn’t see.
I couldn’t scream.
“I am Olivia Rose, I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Claimed.”
“I am a writer, I am unbreakable, I am Claimed.”
“I am unbreakable, I am Claimed.”
“I am Claimed.”
“I am Claimed.”
“I am Claimed.”
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