Chapter Fifty Eight

I had wondered why they were both absent for the past two days, if only I knew what they had been busy with.

I sobbed silently. I would never survive here. Now I doubted that Thane would keep to his words of letting me go; maybe I would end up there, just like those girls.

I had never felt so afraid in my life.

I rolled over Beatrix’s offer in my mind; she was willing to help me escape this place, but she couldn’t help my mother. I shouldn’t leave my mother behind, but I was so afraid, I didn’t want to be here for the next minute.

I jumped to my feet when someone walked in; it was Thane. I quickly wiped off my tears.

“Why are you crying?”

“Is nothing?” I lied, my heart pounding. Now I knew what he could do; I would never be able to sleep on the same bed with this man. Everything about him frightened me, but what was more alarming was how indifferent he was, because this was his life. Even after what he had done – what he had been doing, he could still sleep without being hunted. He wa