Chapter 149 Kieran's Offer

• ~ Elara ~
• The stone floor was cold against my back as I lay there, staring at the ceiling in the dim light of the cell. The silence was suffocating, interrupted only by the faint drip of water somewhere in the distance. I hadn’t eaten or drunk anything since they locked me in here, but that wasn’t what bothered me the most. It was the injustice of it all. I hadn’t stolen Seraphina’s bracelet. She’d framed me, and Kieran had played right into her hands.
• A hollow laugh escaped my lips. Of course he did. He’d always wanted an excuse to humiliate me, to break me down into something he could control. But even in this cell, stripped of my dignity, I wasn’t broken. I wouldn’t be.