Just like before. So when she coldly walked past me, I grabbed her hand without thinking.
“Isla, it wasn’t me.”
Her face instantly lost all color. She forced back the nausea rising in her throat and yanked her hand away from mine.
The slap came without warning, hitting hard across my face.
“Get away from me! Don’t touch me! You make me sick!”
“Cassian would never lie to me. She’s the kindest person in the world.”
Blood ran down the corner of my mouth, and at that moment, I didn’t feel like explaining anything anymore.
“Landon, everyone has to face the results of their own actions, and you’re no different.”
“Break his arms. Beat him until he learns his lesson, so he’ll never dare touch Cassian again.”
The bodyguards pinned me down, and the iron rods came down on my arms again and again.
The cracking sound of bones filled the air, cold and cruel. The pain was so intense that everything around me started to fade.
Through the dizziness, it felt like I had gone back to that night long ago when Isla took the beating for me.
As the pain blurred my sight, I quietly hummed the little lullaby I had made up back then.