Sallie's POV
Two years back, my parents and brothers despised me. Draven, my childhood fiancé, had grown sick of me too. I was like vermin everyone wanted to exterminate.
That's why I clutched at anything that might prove I hadn't been cast aside completely.
Then Draven called, claiming he had something crucial to share—just the two of us.
His tone through the phone was so tender, so loaded with feeling, that I convinced myself maybe we'd returned to how things were before Jill's homecoming.
So I ditched the bodyguard Levi had assigned and headed alone to that unfinished building with zero surveillance.
But Draven wasn't there waiting. Instead, the Noahs stood ready with rope and fabric, declaring, "This is for your benefit."
They stripped me of everything and bound me up—shipping me straight to that nightmare.
I'd questioned myself endlessly why Draven would deceive me.
Jill had already committed to him. Everyone around them was orchestrating their union.
