Severing the Bond

~Rowena~

I dragged myself back to consciousness through a thick haze of blinding agony. Pain shot through my muscles, tracing along my nerve endings like pulses of raw electricity. My limbs ached with a deep, bruising throb, as if I had been beaten with an iron rod and left to rot in the street. I lacked any memory of how I got here. I let out a low, ragged groan, forcing my heavy eyelids open to