Chapter 53

Nico

I can barely keep my eyes on the road for looking at her. She sleeps soundly in the seat beside me as I speed us away from our hell. That was the hardest few weeks of my life, I can take being tortured, humiliated but to have her that close to me and not be able to comfort her or give her a sign that all was going to be okay. That was the real torture.

The sun is at its pique as we get further and further away, my eyes anxiously check the mirrors for any sign of a tail or unusual behaviour. I know it’s unlikely they would be so close behind us. I had estimated it might take a few hours if we were lucky before someone really started to miss Lucien and go looking. Without Damian there, I would imagine the type of business he is doing he won’t be easily reachable, they will never know our escape route. It makes me smile to think the plan I devised for him is now Amelia and I’s route to safety.

Damian’s own arrogance means he never learned the actual finer details of our p