Chapter 179

• Blair
• I meet their eyes again for a moment. “He raped me in front of them to show me I was his.” I snort bitterly. “Lucas… Lucas cried. I remember the sight of his tears. I kept my eyes on him the whole time to try and get through it. But it hurt him more than any stab wound because he couldn’t protect me. Afterwards, he decided to go back to my friends to get rid of them so I would only have him. I kept hoping someone would find us, or that I could get free. Even if it meant enduring...enduring that again, I’d do it to keep my friends alive.”
• “I tried to get my hands out of the ropes while he was distracted, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t get free. I couldn’t save them,” I admit. “He killed them, Cyrus. He killed them all. He left Lucas for last, but he was already bad. He’d lost so much blood. God, the things he did to him. For touching me, for loving me. Yet even as he was dying, Lucas tried to save me, to tell me everything would be okay.”