Chapter 34
Arianna’s POV
I don’t sleep because I can’t or maybe because I refuse to. I still lie on the guest bed staring at the faint outline of the window. Morning takes forever to arrive, but I don’t mind at all.
The moment the slightest sunray slips through the curtain, I push myself up immediately. My feet touch the cold tiles and I begin pacing the room without even realizing it, my mind already running faster than my body.
Okay… what do I tell Father? Where would I tell him I'd been?
He'll probably assume I chickened out because Derek asked for my hand in marriage, well, that's a valid thing to do but who would believe I got kidn*pped?
The word itself sounds ridiculous when I repeat it silently, kidnapped... blindfolded... and almost injected with something illegal because I
