CHAPTER 25

Bria blinked at the scarred and ruined woman before them. Once, perhaps, she had been beautiful. She was young, as evidenced by her frame and the smooth patches of skin that remained along her shoulders.

It felt as though Bria was looking into a mirror, one that showed her future, rather than the present. And despite knowing that there was nothing left of what the woman had been, Bria found hersel