Chapter 22 We Eloped!
*Ciana*
Darkness surrounded me as I sat there on the dingy dungeon floor-waiting.
Waiting for what, I wasn’t sure. My mouth was so dry, my tongue was practically stuck to the roof of my mouth. My stomach was so empty, it had given up rumbling long ago and now just consisted of a dull ache deep within me.
My dreams, when I managed to doze off, usually consisted of me standing next to a beautiful lake full of water that I couldn’ t get to, no matter how hard I tried, and a feast full of all kinds of my favorite foods that I simply couldn’t taste.
I wanted to tell Jake the truth. In fact, I had told him the truth.
But he couldn’t release me.
At this point, if I had been a spy for that Luther person, I probably would’ve confessed. But I had nothing to tell Jake or Theo or anyone other than the truth.
I had been hoping to find out more information about the state of things in my own pack, and that’s why I’d gone to look for that man who had kidnapped Brook, and nothing more….
Brook. The thought of her made me sad, not because I missed her so much, though it was true that I did, but because I felt so sorry for her. She had to be worried sick about me.
“Ciana!”
Why, even now, I was hallucinating that I could hear the sound of her voice. Goodness, how I missed her.
“Ciana? Are you in there? It’s so dark.”
288 Vouchers.
As quickly as I could get up off of the floor, I rose, stumbling on unsteady legs as I went to the unguarded, but locked, bars that made up a cell door.
“Brook?” I questioned; reaching through to touch her hand. It felt so warm compared to my cold one. “Are you really here?”
She pulled me to the bars, hugging me tightly. “Oh, thank goodness you’re all right. I’ve been so worried about you!” Her tears landed on my cheek, and my tongue darted out to lick them up without me even thinking simply because it was moisture.
She let me go. “Here, I brought you some water.”
“Brook, you’re my angel!”
I hoped that amount of liquid could
did you
Beta Jake is not as mean
few
here,” I whispered to her. As I rehydrated, I could
surprisingly as she offered me her analysis, “otherwise there was no way Beta Jake would allow me
feelings that perhaps he wasn’t as bad as I’d thought, or maybe that he could be kind when he wanted to be, had faded
was important to the prince because of his stupid berry, but I really didn’t care
debate with my good friend when she was taking
welling up in her eyes, even though it was so
her to try and sneak the key away from Jake or Theo. “Who else would
“Brook!” I said, grasping her arms tightly in my grip. “I know who you
stared at me as what I was sure
crested my face.
do was chuckle with delirium as I told her my
on a canteen full of water. I’d already eaten a few pieces of
run away.
please. You don’t want others to find out our identity, right?” Prince Warren said as
a nod. We’d run at first, once we got outside of the castle, but then, I’d gotten tired, probably
to lock you up
unlock the cell door and look away as I did my
had insisted on coming along with me to make sure that I
literally and figuratively as we were actually walking through a densely wooded area-I felt
through the woods, memories of the last
I was fairly certain now that it had been him
this with him when he’d first come to unlock the cell, but he wouldn’t
keep me safe, no
he told me again. “And there’s no way that she would tell anyone. Besides, it isn’t like we eloped or something. Even if they do find out, what is my brother going to do to me? He might be more popular with our father, but
Theo’s reactions when he was determined to punish someone. I didn’t want to see Prince Warren be the one who got caught up in all of that
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