Chapter Ten
Etta lifted her head off the cool ground of the cell, her energy failing her. It wasn’t the same cell she’d been kept in before, but it might as well have been. Stone walls rose on three sides with a wrought-iron gate for the fourth.
No comforts existed within those walls. Nothing that would make her believe she was anything but a prisoner. Again.
No, she couldn’t be a prisoner. She was the queen of Bela, not merely Etta anymore. She wanted to scream for someone to let her out, but no sound came out.
“Hey.” Edmund kneeled next to her. “You’re awake.”
“Seems so.” She pushed up before falling back.
Edmund put a hand on her back to help her sit. The magic she’d used sucked everything out of her. As soon as the cell door slammed shut, locking them in, she’d fallen asleep.
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