Avyaane’s POV

I felt the walls of the east wing closingin on me.

I ought to have feltrelieved that Chad hadn’t kept me back in the dungeon when I’d tried to escape. But I wasn’t.

Because this wasn’t mercy.

It was a game.

And Iwas stuck in the middle of that.

I saton the side of my bed as my mind raced. I had to try again. The front gates were heavily fortified, thehalls of the castle patrolled, but that didn’t mean there was no exit.

I just had to find it.

But before ...