Andrei’s POV
“Start talking,” I growled, pressing the knife harder against Lilith’s throat. “Or I’ll slit your throat.”
“Andrei, please—”
“Tell me everything you know. Now.”
She was quiet for a long moment, and I was about to make good on my threat when she finally spoke.
“When they first took me, I was a prisoner,” she said quietly. “For the first few months, they kept me chained up, barely fed me. I thought I was going to die there. But then one of them... he started bringing me extra food. Talking to me.” Lilith’s throat bobbed against the knife. “His name was Erik. He was different from the others. Smarter. Kinder.”
I felt my jaw clench. “So you fell for one of your captors. So what?”
“He fell for me, too. And after a year, thanks to him, they stopped treating me like a prisoner
