Chapter 625: The Night Something Inside Her Broke
Warning: This chapter contains sensitive and distressing themes, including violence and the abuse of a minor.
Someone was screaming.
The sound tore through the air, raw and broken, like it didn't belong to anything human anymore.
Sophia didn't know who it was.
At first.
It echoed around her, bouncing off stone walls, sharp enough to make her head throb. Her ears rang, a wet warmth trailing down the side of her neck as the sound refused to stop.
Everything was blurry.
The world tilted.
Her throat burned from pain and then she paused.
Oh.
The sound… it was coming from her.
She was the one screaming.
Her body shook violently, her chest rising and falling too fast, uneven, like she couldn't catch her breath no matter how hard she tried.
Her vision cleared and she saw him.
Alaric.
He lay on the ground, unmoving.
A pool of blood spread beneath him, dark and endless, soaking into the stone and staining everything it touched.
