Chapter 99: So This Is How It Ends

Lana Hayde struggled, of course she did, but she was no match for Jace. She even tried to hold her breath until her lungs burned. The thrashing drained her faster, and after barely twenty seconds she was forced to inhale. With that breath, she inhaled the ether from the handkerchief. Another half minute of flailing, and her eyelids grew heavier, her resistance fainter. As the dark closed in, her mind raced to what might await her once she passed out. Would they murder her, rape her, both? The...