Chapter 198: Fear
REAGAN POV
Broken!
That was what she was! I finally found my girl but she was broken. Her green eyes were dull, almost lifeless. Though she was awake and staring at me, but the light in her had dim. Her dark hair with the luscious curls that always shined now looked matted with sweat and dry blood. It was also streaked with a lot of death that I know would take days to wash away. Her lips were cracked and on her face, I couldn’t even bear to look at it, I couldn’t bear to look at her face.
It hurts, it hurts to look at her!
Evie had gotten us in like we had planned. In the fortress they needed food supplies and a shipment of them always goes out to them every month. So that was what we did. We hid inside the cart where the food supplies were supposed to be. It was a brilliant plan and staying inside the carts on a ship for four days was worth it because we were able to get by undetected and it landed us inside the fortress without any trouble.
We waited until it was in night time before we made our presence known. There were a lots of prisons here and I knew where it was and also the horrors they concealed. It breaks me to know my wife was here especially a place where they called the pits. Evie had taken care of the guards keeping watch so I was able to sneak inside the pit without drawing any attention to myself.
For months, I have prepared myself for what I would do if I laid eyes on Dahlia one more time. I have stared into the mirror practicing what it was I would say when I see her again. But nothing, I repeat that nothing could have prepared me for the sight in front of me.
There she was, strapped down to a chair a rag tied to her mouth while her body was covered in blood and she was wearing a piece of rag, a cloth that wasn’t fit for the weather we were in. She had been slumped in the chair when I found her and for a minute, only for a brief moment I had thought that she was dead. I feared the worst had finally happened but she had let out something that sounded like a whimper.
I had wasted no time in rushing to her side, gripping her cheek as I called her name but it would seem she was having a nightmare. I heard her call my name and say something along the line that Ivar was gone. I decided to wake her up from the nightmare, shaking her until eventually those eyes snapped open. I was so excited to see those green eyes I didn’t consider what to expect. I didn’t consider that this place would have sucked the life out of them.