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“Shut the fuck up,” the guard growls as he kicks it open and hoists me inside.
I fling around inside their grips but to no avail. I can’t win two against one.
WHACK!
A sudden hard hit on the floor in the middle of the living room makes me cry out in pain.
They threw me down like a piece of garbage.
The guard swiftly cuts through the zip ties that bind my wrists and marches off, shutting the door behind him.
Groaning, I come to a rise, but the fogginess in my brain instantly clears the moment I spot my own father sitting in a chair right beside Lex.
My stomach drops.
“Welcome back, dear,” Lex muses, smiling like a crazed maniac.
But I can only stare at my father, who looks down at me with disdain.
“Papa …?” I mutter in disbelief that he’s actually here without fighting even a single second.
“You look like you’ve seen a ghost,” Lex says, tapping his fingers against the chair. “Yes, Aurora, your father is here as well. Astute observation.”
Tears well up in my eyes as I gaze at my father’s, whose soulless eyes make me feel numb to the core.
He’s calm. Far too calm.
Like he’s actually here, willingly.
“You … You sold us out, didn’t you?” I mutter.
Father doesn’t even blink.
Beast was right.
He gave Lex the location of the beach house. But why? Did he want Beast to get captured that badly?
But he knew I was there too.
Why would he do this to me?
“You knew I was there too, not just Beast. You knew they’d come take me,” I rasp, barely able to speak through my anger. “Why?”
His face tightens, darkens, and his muscles stiffen as he shifts in the chair.
Still, there’s no response.
Oh God no.
This can’t be happening.
Panicked, I push myself backward across the floor while Lex begins to laugh.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
I bump into the door and crawl onto my knees to stand, but no matter how many times I jerk the handle, it refuses to open.
“Open this damn door!” I yell, punching the wood.
