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Thais had betrayed him.
Her apology was an admission of guilt. The image of her mouthing her contrition had replayed in his mind over and over, keeping him awake most of the night. Not only that, but it had been cold and he didn’t have a blanket.
Caden sat on the frigid stone floor of his cell, his back pressed against the wall. His wrists were shackled and chained to the stones behind him. It didn’t make any sense. Why would she have ratted him out about what he’d found? And why would Captain Eduard care so much? It was difficult to fathom that Eduard believed Thais’s wild conspiracy theory.
Yet here he was in the dungeon.
Approaching footsteps caught his attention. Someone stopped in front of his cell, and Caden squinted, trying to see in the dimness. Keys rattled, and the cell d
