Zane POV
While embracing her, I was cautious of her broken arm and leg as she quivered against me.
Sage scared me. If she had just opened up to me earlier, tonight's events may have never happened. Not being able to earn her trust and have her share what she was dealing with was eating me up inside. That sick sadistic f**k was torturing her mentally, and she endured it all alone until she got physically hurt tonight.
I took no pleasure in what I was making Sage do. It destroyed me just as much as it did her. Even though her memories hurt her, I needed to see them and wouldn’t let her keep anything from me. To release Sage from Kendric’s grasp, we needed to investigate her memories for clues, and I needed to understand why they caused her distress.
When she allowed me to see them, visi
