Chapter 170
Betrayed by Blood
Chapter 170
Cain burst into the place, barely noticing the scent of sweat, blood, and rot that always clung to these walls. The moment he stepped inside, his gaze locked onto her.
Avery.
She stood in the center of it all, trembling. Her hands were limp at her sides, but her entire body seemed to tremble with something wrong.
Everything around her was still.
The guards, the prisoners in their cells, even the filth-ridden criminals who had lived through the worst kinds of torment... all of them were frozen, their eyes locked on her. None of them spoke. None of them even breathed too loudly.
Cain’s chest tightened. He had seen fear before, had commanded it, inspired it. But this? This was something else entirely.
His gaze flickered toward the source of their horror.
Hugh. Or at least what remained of him.
A sharp, raw scream pierced through the air, snapping Cain’s focus back to the man on the ground. Hugh’s body was blackened, his flesh charred and curling from the intense heat that had scorched him alive.