Chapter 53

• My chest squeezed at his words and I dabbed at the tears on my cheeks with the back of my hands.
• "But I need to explain-" My words stuck in my throat when Marcel scoffed.
• "What is there to explain? That you had another man's scent all over you barely minutes after Slade left you to attend to his duties? And not just any man Aria, a man who escaped from our dungeons right under our watch. There's never been an escape from the dungeons up until you came along," Marcel snickered.