~ALTHEA
I was about to scream when the same warm hands closed on my mouth.
A muffled sound escaped my mouth as I stared back at Tristan in horror. The last thing I had expected was that he would come for me in the middle of the night on the same day. Yet here he was.
"I'm taking you with me," he whispered into my right ear.
My breath got caught in my throat as all sorts of horrible things that he could do to me started running through my mind. What did he want from me this time? Wasn't the torture at his playhouse enough? Was he about to take me back to that place?
Tristan lifted me in one swing and placed me on his shoulder. My body went cold, and all warmth was drained away by fear as if it had been sucked out of me.
I looked up just in time to see Cynthia looking silently down at
