Bound: Toxic Love (Book 2)

Chapter LI

Lana's POV

My mind seemed to had gone blank.. It was pictures that flashed before me, pain that crept throughout my body from the tight grip around me from behind, but my ears only echoed with sounds and Christian's cusses while my mind failed to register the whole situation..

  My eyes only focused on his angry face and those that appeared behind him.. Amelia and Dimitri.. He held her back when she tried getting closer to the barrier, but my ears went mute to their voices.. She looked terrified, and I knew it was for me..

Because it was Adam that held me, him that tricked me.. The very monster himself. Yet at that point, I could only concentrate on Christian's furious bangs against the invisible barrier, his harsh cusses that occasionally found their way to my ears to register..

This is the final war, I thought.. This is it. Him or us. Him or me, to be more correct since it was only the two of us in that room that was locked with a spell so that no one else could enter. To face one another once seemed very simple, but in reality it was a lot more complicated than what it sounded like..

Perhaps I could've snatched away from him somehow.. Perhaps I could've even punched him through that process.. But I stayed still.. I stayed quiet and allowed him to hold me close to him from behind, keeping me straight and conscious so that I could witness Christian's misery as he repeatedly demanded to him to let me go..

  One wrong move, and any of those before me, those that I was ready to give my life for, could fall dead. And it was that moment I understood the meaning behind my father's words.. The things he had once said about witches and dark magic.. The reason why he kept us away from them our whole lives.

  It was magic and spells that took his daughter away once.. He simply never wished such fate for none of his other children. And so it was also the moment I realized my father wasn't fearless.. He feared death. Not his own.. But the death of those he loved blindly. And at that point, I realized that I was just the same..

  "It must hurt," Adam spoke against my ear, inhaled sharply and continued provoking Christian. "to have something snatched from you, from right under your nose."

  "Let her go." Christian simply repeated through his teeth, and..

  And was something in his voice.. Something so sharp and promising.. I had never seen him in such state of rage.. In such state that I believe anything or anyone that tried crossing him would wind up in pieces.

My hair was slightly yanked back with enough force to have me close my eyes for a second.. Adam was furious, I knew that.. I even lied to him when I got there, telling him I would follow him and his plan, that I arrived there under a mind game when it was all a plan.. His rage was predicted. I just never thought he would make it alive that far..

"I've rotted here for two damn years because of you damned le Boursiers." He spoke through clenched teeth, there near me from behind and held me tight enough so that I couldn't move an inch. "I've lived and re-lived every second of my life, through agony and misery," An ironic dry laugh left his throat "Do you have any clue how it felt when I heard her heartbeat, here in front of this house, six months ago?"

I felt him move closer.. "It broke your spell, you impulsive little bitch," His breath was near my ear as I closed my eyes. "I woke up," He even dared to caress my hair, provoking Christian further.. "The simple feel of her near had me wake up," I could feel his breath somewhere near my neck and I feared to open my eyes and see Christian's fury to that. "And I knew I had—" Another inhale against my hair and I heard Christian's angry shout. A roar. "I had to see her, feel her.. I had to have her if I wanted to live,"