*Barbara* Kane must be dead. If he isn’t, he will be soon enough. It’s been more than a day since our last mind-link conversation, and he still hasn’t arrived at the castle to save me from this shithole. Now, he isn’t even answering me on the mind-link! It’s like he was trying to come and free me and got into a serious battle outside of the castle with the guards or one of those f*****g Alpha’s forces and was dispatched. As I pace back and forth in my tiny little cell, the stench of mildew continuing to burn my nose, I ask myself where I went wrong. How did I fail to seduce a single Alpha? How did I fail to convince Gene that he should go ahead and declare that I would be the next queen? How did I fail to convince Kane to storm this castle and free me from this horrible place? It see

