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... a silent scream trapped in his throat.

He didn't move.

His whole body froze, his breath suspended, as if waiting for something to strike again. For the whip to crack again. For the pain to return. For the foreman's voice to ring out, ordering him to get up when he couldn't. But nothing.

But nothing.

Just silence.

His gaze was hazy, haunted, lost in the darkness of his room ...

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