Arrin continued. “Afterward the guards released me from my chains and let the woman loose on me. She wanted to kill me and I didn’t blame her, nor did I satisfy the guard’s desire to see me beat her in self-defense. I think if she’d had a weapon, she could’ve had her wish to see me dead, but without one she wasn’t strong enough to kill me. Finally, the guards tired of their sport and took her away still screaming curses at me. They left the body of the baby in my cell for the next twenty-four hours for me to look upon and know I’d become the worst kind of murderer.” Arrin took a deep, unsteady breath. “After they took the tiny body away, I used my enhanced strength to punch out the reinforced glass in the window in my cell, and used a shard to slash my wri...

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