He shoved the prod into my stomach and I fell to my knees screaming as searing pain jolted my entire body. My teeth clacked shut so hard I thought they would break.
‘Demi!’Sawyer cried out, having probably felt that through our bond.
Queen Drake looked at me like I was a nuisance, like my scream was too loud for her perfect ears.
“I’m hypothesizing that we need to take off the cuffs in order to bottle her power,” the first lab coat dude told her and showed her a tablet screen.
Bottle her power.
He saidbottle… in relation tome.
A sickness rolled into me as I started to glean why they might have kidnapped me. I thought it was in retaliation to Vicon’s murder, but no… they knew what I was and they meant to… bottle my power?
Oh hell no.
I jumped up, lunging for them both, when the second lab coat guy met me halfway, shoving the electric stick right into my chest.
The prods pricked my skin and my heart squeezed like it might burst; blackness danced in my vision, pain shaking me like nothing I’d ever felt before. Wetness pooled between my legs and I blinked, realizing I’d peed my pants.
How did I get on the floor? Where were the lab coats and the queen? I must have blacked out…? I looked down to see a red dot on the inside of my arm, like they’d taken blood from me.
No.
A sob burst from my chest as I realized how incredibly screwed I was.
‘Demi…’Sawyer’s voice was much softer this time.‘What happened? You went dark. Where are you? In a building? A house?’
The absolute heartbreak of Sawyer choosing Meredith over me, of him not trusting me, it all came down on me like a pile of bricks, crushing my soul.
‘You didn’t believe me. How could you not believe me!’I whimpered as the pain from the cuffs lit up my arms.‘Take off that fucking necklace, Sawyer. It’s spelled.’
‘I have eyes! You kissed another dude. What was I supposed to think?’he shot back.
‘You were supposed to trust me.’I didn’t even feel the pain anymore, I was numb. ‘Take off the necklace,’ I whimpered, repeating myself.
‘I’m coming for you,’he repeated.‘I’m not going to let anything happen to you. I… still love you.’
I scoffed at that.‘But you’ll marry Meredith?’
Silence.
‘I have to protect my family,’he said finally, and the pain in my heart somehow got more intense.‘And Meredith loves me,’he added, sounding confused.
‘Take off the necklace, Sawyer!’I shouted, crying at the pain that talking to him was causing me.
‘No. Meredith gave it to me. It was a special present.’He sounded like Smeagol protecting the one ring.
‘You don’t love me.’I spoke it like the fact it was.
‘Yes I do.’
‘This isn’t love, Sawyer! Love and trust go together. That guy I kissed was you. He looked and talked like you. I was tricked, and someone who loved me would believe me.’I could smell burning hair and skin from the cuffs as they singed my arms. And I wept as this current hell became reality.
Silence.
‘I want to believe you…’he said. ‘I’m…confused.I feel… off.’
That fucking necklace was a love spell. I just knew it. This wasn’t him. This wasn’t my Sawyer.
