Chapter 60

• I didn’t know how I escaped that cave but somehow, I was suddenly in the middle of the forest. A sharp, high-pitched ringing filled my ears like a scream I couldn’t silence.
• My legs buckled. I collapsed, trembling, as something inside me fractured. It wasn’t just shock or fear it was fury and heartbreak crashing through me like a physical force, shaking every muscle, vibrating through my bones. I’d thought I was ready for the truth in all its ugliness, but I wasn’t. Not even close.
• God help me, I might’ve already fallen for Gosto. And the thought of telling him of giving him my heart only for him to crush it made me feel like a fool. Would he have thanked me before ending me? That reckless, naïve part of me still clung to the desperate hope that I hadn’t been just a tool to him… that killing me was never his plan. That I should face him, confront him, demand the truth.