chapter 9

Bile rises in my throat as I experience her terror and pain through the memories she wanted to bury and forget. Yet, here I am, digging them up and forcing her to live through the same nightmare all over again. The rogue men she was with tortured her in every way possible. I can’t comprehend how vile someone has to be to do the things they did to Sage and her mother. And the worst part is that the guilt that was used against her mother to force her to obey ate at her. It still does. The next memory shows fragments of when she stumbled across her first mate. It portrays their journey and how he tried to save her from them. Her mate did everything in his power only to be slaughtered in front of her while she was chained to a tree and forced to watch. Something about her mate nags at me, he seems familiar for some reason. A lifetime of pain, torture, and sorrow. Even the little amount of happy memories are overpowered by everything I can only describe as a nightmare. I can see why she doe