June's POV
They used me.
I couldn't believe it at first. The fear and the confusion clouded my mind, numbing everything, until I couldn't tell where their hands ended and my own pain began. But when the realization hit me, it was like a switch was flipped, and I could finally see it all for what it was.
They hadn't just wanted me for their experiments.
I had become their pawn.
They had used me to control him.
Justin.
I should have known, I should have seen it coming, but in the darkness of that place, when everything was so twisted and broken, it was hard to think straight. I had been so consumed by my own trauma, the weight of what I had been through, that I hadn't realized they were using me against him.
When they strapped me to that chair, when they injected me with their poisons and whispered their lies into my ears, I thought I was just another test subject. Another broken thing for their twisted minds to toy with. But now, I knew. I was the key. The bait.
