Chapter 281

NATALIE’S POV I felt light burning behind my eyelids. For a second, I thought I was dead. But then I felt my chest get heavy. I dragged in a breath that burned through me like fire, and I realized that no, I wasn’t dead. I was alive. Too alive. Energy raged through my veins like lightning. The wave of energy burned and twisted through me, forcing me to move. I blinked, opening my eyes slowly. The world looked sharper in my eyes and painfully bright. It seemed like my senses were more heightened. My body felt wrong, strange like it didn’t belong to me anymore. And then the memories hit. I remembered everything. The dungeon. The chains. Memphis’s mocking smile. The agony in my womb. The hollow ache where my babies were. All the cruel things Memphis made me go through. The memory of Memphis forcing me to drink poison so I could kill my babies. I choked on a sob. My hands pressed to my stomach, but there was nothing there now except rage. That was all I felt inside me. “Nat…” a soft voice