Bound and Defiant

Air sawed in and out of my lungs, though I couldn't tell if it came from our brutal shouting match or simply standing in Draven’s suffocating proximity. My head spun with sheer rage; since the second I crossed his office threshold, he had hurled nothing but filth at me, and replaying those insults made my skull feel ready to split open.

I wasn't sure what I had hoped for when I hauled myself up h