Chapter 7: My Name

He carries me up the stairs in silence. Bianca screams after us the whole way — you'll regret this, you'll REGRET this — until Damiano says one word to the guards without breaking stride: "Lock her in the east wing. If she leaves it, shoot her feet." The screaming stops. He kicks open a door I've never seen and sets me down on the edge of a bathtub big enough to swim in, and steam rises around us, and he crouches to look at the collar burns on my neck. His hands are shaking. The Devil...