Chapter 1
Sophia
My head boomed when I came to. I felt disoriented and sick. Had I drunk too much last night? I rolled around to feel Iwan, but the place next to me was empty. Besides, everything felt so wrong. No smooth satin sheets but rough fabric, like from a woolen blanket. The kind the military used. In addition, the ground was too hard, as if the blanket lay directly on the floor. I opened my eyes and a scream came over my lips. Where was I? Naked concrete walls stared back at me. And the room I was in was tiny. Maybe ten by ten feet. There was no window. Only a ventilation shaft. Too high and too narrow to serve as an escape route. A metal door was the only way out of that cell. And it was a cell, of that I was sure. But where was I? Who had locked me up here? And why? I tried to
