Chapter 54

• AYSEL
• I prepared myself to bare it all. I stood in front of a mirror and I prepared what I would say to Valens and how I would say it. All the time I looked in the mirror, all I could see was Lucien’s hand all over my body and all I felt was a thousand bugs crawling all over my skin.
• “I have no idea what happened but I woke up and I was in the basement and then –“ I wiped the tears from my cheeks as I forced myself to look into the mirror. “And then there were pictures and I know I didn’t – I didn’t consent to them.” My hands went through the mirror and it came down in a cascade of broken glass that dug into my fist.