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Chapter 53 - 53. Writer Reveal

Viella's Pov

When consciousness returned, my head started paining like hell

My eyelashes fluttered. The room sharpened into view. Black silk curtains. Marble floors.

My pulse stopped.

Dante's room.

I jerked upright. For one delusional second I hoped the whole thing had been some fever dream.

Then I saw it.

The mirror beside the bed reflected a dark, vicious handprint wrapped around my neck. A bruise shaped exactly like his fingers.

I touched it.

"...So it wasn't a dream."

My heartbeat throbbed painfully. His voice echoed in my head.

"Who are you?"

He wasn't asking out of curiosity. He was asking because he knew something was wrong. Because he could smell the lie I never meant to tell.

If he digs too deep...

If he thinks I deceived him...

I swallowed. This world had too many ways to kill me.

I rubbed my forehead, spiraling.

"I never asked him to like me. Never manipulated anybody. Why is my life tied to the mood swings of a mafia lunatic?"

Then-

Click.

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