C28 HELLHOLE.
AVERY’S POV:
I prayed for death as I lay curled up in the cage, crammed into the trunk of the Devil’s car. Breathing my last in that suffocating darkness seemed preferable to whatever awaited me. The rage I’d glimpsed in his eyes, paired with the distant explosion that rattled the air, left no doubt—whatever came next would make death seem merciful.
Every attempt to escape him had failed
