Final Defiance

THE EXECUTION

~GAEL POV~

The warehouse looked exactly the same as it had the first time they had brought me here, all concrete floors and metal beams and the kind of oppressive quiet that made you hyper-aware of every breath you took, every heartbeat that felt too loud in your chest, and I was back in the same chair, hands zip-tied behind my back, ankles strapped to the legs, the plastic cutting i