Sarah's POV
I went still. The fight drained out of me, replaced by a cold, paralyzing terror that turned my blood to ice. I stared up at him, my chest heaving, tears tracking into my hair and pooling on the floor.
"All I have ever done was love you," he said, his voice trembling with a warped kind of grief that made my stomach turn. "I gave you everything. A name. A home. And this is how you repay me? By running to him? By letting that shadow touch what is mine?"
"You hurt me, Jason," I choked out, my voice barely a whisper, broken by the pressure of the gun. "In so many ways. That isn't love. That’s a cage. Please... just let me go."
He didn't listen. He never listened. He ran the barrel of the gun along my jawline, dragging the cold steel down to the sensitive skin under my chin, fo
