Chapter 36
The Monster
ALEXIS
My eyes shot open.
I woke up with a broken gasp.
Sleep paralysis locked my limbs, and every cell in my body screamed with pain. I was still in my wedding toga, tucked beneath silk sheets.
Deep male snores echoed around the cavernous room. The three of us were lying in a decadent four-poster bed.
Memories of my husbands’ smug expressions stabbed at me. Hellfire ignited
in my chest, and it burned hot.
Hatred filled me.
They won’t get away with this. They’ll pay for tricking me.
Two new cords—chains—scorched my chest, singeing as they wrapped tighter around my heart like the marriage bond could feel my displeasure.
Augustus and Kharon moaned with pain in their sleep.
There were consequences to marrying a monster.
They’d begun.
For them.
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