Chapter 86: Easy to Rattle
Giselle froze as if lightning had struck straight through her.
In that same instant, her mind lurched violently awake and began producing thought after thought with merciless speed.
She remembered the phone call from a little over an hour ago. Elias had made only one brief sound then, a broken breath, nothing more. But the human brain was monstrous that way. Even without ever having experienced anything like it herself, she could already imagine with sickening clarity what might have happened between him and Serena in that car.
And now that same filthy man was clinging to her.
His arms were wrapped around her waist. His tears had soaked through the thin layer of fabric and touched her skin.
Giselle had assumed revulsion would come first. She should have felt nauseated. She should have wanted to shove him away and scrub herself clean until her skin burned.
Instead, her mind remained strangely sharp.
