Elena
I sat staring into the evening sky from my window. The sun had cast an orange glow in the clouds. I could see the field outside and the flowers that lined them. The guards stood just a few feet from my window.
‘Well, now running away isn’t an option.’
‘I need to work,’ I huffed to myself.
I’d been indoors all day, and that was how it was every day. I needed to leave my room and this house. It felt like the air around here was clamping around my very throat.
‘I should probably step out,’ I sighed. ‘I should try at least.’
I resolved. As soon as I opened the door, I was startled by a broad back and shoulders in front of my room.
“Oh.”
“You’re back,” was all I could say, heat immediately rising to my cheeks as the events of the previous night washed over my mind.
He just turned
