CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
The long day and its stress had left me exhausted and I soon slipped into a wonderful sleep. That is, until a hand clapped over my mouth.
I let out a muffled scream and instinct told me to thrash. A strong arm wrapped around me and Tegan’s voice whispered in my ear. “Calm down. It’s just me.”
I stiffened before I whipped my head around and glared at him, or what I could see of him. He’d extinguished the candles and the fire had died to barely any embers. The light from the night sky was now blocked by the thick curtains. They’d been open when I went to sleep.
I wrenched his hand away from my mouth and hissed at him. “Are you trying to give me a heart attack?”
“No. I’m trying to give us a good chance to escape.”
My heart skipped a beat. “Escape? Escape
