Chapter Fifty-Nine

Talia's POV:

When I woke up the next morning, Nicholas was gone again. I couldn't really remember what happened after he brought me back to bed in his room yesterday. The rest of the day was fuzzy in my memory. It was like my brain had switched off, unable to process the violence I had witnessed. I think I vaguely recall Nicholas picking me up off the bed after a while and bringing me to the shower. He must've washed me and bandaged my feet because they were wrapped in gauze this morning and hurt a lot less when I walked.

I still felt very much sore from the roughness of the sex he had with me yesterday. I witnessed the dark side of him like never before, and it was consuming. The message was clear to me never to go against him in the future.