23LucianaI was on edge. It was hard not to be. There had been some comfort to be found when Bills showed up and revealed what was really going on. On the other hand, knowing someone was on my side but still couldn’t help me didn’t do me a lot of favors. It wouldn't save me when things got bad. And I knew they were going to get bad soon.
Blade had promised me that much.
I hadn’t received a meal in a while, not since breakfast, and I hadn’t eaten that. When the guard who replaced Bills came down, he took my tray away and gave me nothing but another juice box. I thought about protesting, but didn’t really see the point.
I sat on my lumpy cot and stared at the door at the top of the stairs. My only way out. I had to assume Jax would come for me that way, though I imagined all kinds of alter
