Chapter 79: Trapped with a Monster
Darkness pressed against Danielle like a blanket she could not push away. Her eyes fluttered open and the first thing she felt was the sting in her wrists and ankles. The straps dug painfully into her skin.
She tried to breathe but pain stabbed beneath her ribs where the electric torture had burned her.
Her lips parted. "Theo…"
For a moment, she hoped she was dead, hoped this was heaven or something close. But the smell was too rotten.
Heaven didn't smell like smoke and blood.
Footsteps crunched nearby and Danielle stiffened immediately.
Ethan stepped out of the shadows with a calm smile, brushing dust from his cuff as though he had walked out of a meeting and not an explosion.
"You are a surprisingly durable little princess," he said softly. "I almost thought the roof would finish the job for me."
Danielle stared back without a word. Her throat was hurting.
