Darian carried me to the shower and washed me off before he put me in bed and covered me. He placed a kiss on my head and mumbled something but I was too exhausted to hear him and my eyes closed before I could fathom what was happening.

I opened my eyes and looked around but where was I? I didn’t recognize anything around me. There was a lit fire in a small fireplace against a wall where a pot hung from metal hooks. It was dark and gloomy, with a single carpet in the center of the ...