Chapter 424

• He stood under a blast of cold water. Once he stripped down, the mess on his skin was plain to see—scars, knife marks, burns. Near his heart, there was the word “Zay,” branded with a cigarette during a drunken breakdown. The pain had chewed straight into bone, splitting him from the inside out.
• He didn’t want to hurt himself. But for three years, self-inflicted pain was the only way he could prove to himself he was still alive.
• To “satisfy” Zayla Steele’s vengeance, he would keep living in agony until the day he died.