Katie's POV

Chapter 154

Katie's POV

Cephus made me a cup of herbal tea from the cabin supplies, and I was pretty sure he added a splash of something that wasn’t provided in the tea tray, but it was failing to calm me down.

I thought I’d accepted the situation I was in, but this was much worse than the worst I had prepared for. As a kidnapper, I could be frightened, hurt, mutilated… even murdered, but once it got to that point I wasn’t going to care very much, and anyway, Cephus wasn't interested in inflicting extreme harm on a whim.

Marriage was a life sentence.

Around the middle of the day, Cephus came in with a little suitcase and a smaller, transparent plastic bag filled with toiletries: a small toothbrush and toothpaste, soap, a shower cap, and a few other boxed items I didn’t want to think about the use of.

I pushed them across the bed. “Do you get special care packages made up for the girls whose lives you plan to completely ruin?”

“It’s standard hotel equipment, Katie, don’t be dramatic.”