“Nailea!”
I flinched when I heard a deep voice call out to me, followed by the loud clangs of metal against metal which rang in my ear even after it ended.
I didn’t know when I had fallen asleep, but from the light that poured out of the small window and onto Nathan’s face as he stood in front of the bars blocking him from the cell I was in, I knew that the sun had come up.
Even worse, I could tell from the way he looked at me that it was time.
“You have everything set and ready for me already?” I questioned with a slightly mocking tone, and his annoyed frown returned to his face as he started to unlock the cell.
“Stand up and come on out, as slowly as you possibly can,” he commanded, and I stood up with my hands in the air as an exaggerated form of obedience.
“Are my parents going t
