Chapter 85 The Rescue That Binds

• Alone, still bound and in despair, Serena remained in the dim-lit dungeon. The iron chains rattled softly, their metallic clangs echoing against the damp stone walls, and for a moment Serena thought she had been lost entirely to Stefano’s wrath.
• Her body wore thin from the cruelty of his punishments. Her spirit cracked beneath the weight of betrayal and the endless nights of torment that blurred one into the other, until the darkness itself became her only companion
• But suddenly and without warning, the door creaked open and a figure emerged. Before her droopy eyes adjusted, she was dragged into the hallway, pulled along corridors she barely remembered, the voice whispering harshly for her to stay quiet as though salvation could only come from silence.