Chapter 30
Dori
I woke with a killer headache.
After I’d been left in the dungeon alone, I hadn’t done what Xavier had asked me to do. I hadn’t planned the great escape and broken out of there.
I had simply curled into a ball on the cold, damp floor and sobbed before exhaustion overtook me, and I passed out cold. I had no idea how long I slept; I just knew I felt as weak as a kitten when I came to.
But seriously, bloodlust must really take all the energy out of you. I felt so zapped that, at first, I had no idea where I was.
I actually thought I was back home in New Orleans, and I needed to check my alarm clock to make sure I wasn’t late to get up for work.
At one time, that had been my life. I’d been a waitress, with no real prospects, living vivaciously through my exciting and dyn
