It felt like my lungs fucking decompressed at those words as relief filled me in a wave. I’d been driving myself insane worrying about that, night after night wondering if he was forcing her to give her body to him and hating myself more than words could convey for not being able to rescue her. That had been my worst fear for her in all of the nights she’d spent locked up at his mercy and though I knew she had to have faced so many atrocities from him, the fact that he hadn’t been raping her sent relief through me in droves. I swallowed thickly against the surge of emotions in me as I looked
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