Chapter 6

Sadie's eyes flew open in shock. "Stephen, what the hell are you doing?"

Stephen stayed silent. Suddenly, he whipped out a fruit knife, slammed her hand against the wall, and pressed the sharp tip right against the joints of her fingers.

"No," Sadie screamed.

The blade plunged between her finger bones, and blood gushed from her hand as she stared in horror. Tears streamed down her face before she realized it.

The hands she'd once wielded a scalpel with, the hands she'd been so proud of, were destroyed.

Stephen looked like her tears had burned him. For a split second,…