Chapter 207 Not Like Before

• Serena lay in bed, curled beneath the soft linen sheets, staring blankly at the window. The city was quiet at this hour, but her mind was anything but. Several thoughts chased each other endlessly in her head. She was exhausted and just wanted to shut it all off. But she could not stop thinking.
• She could not stop seeing the name Elliot Holtz written boldly on the back of the photo, could not stop hearing the man's broken voice from that cold basement cell asking her to end his misery. Now she understood why Martin was after them: because he wanted Adriano. Serena knew that there was no way she could get him to stop coming after Adriano, but there had to be a way to convince him not to drag Anna into it any more.
• Her fists curled into the sheets.