The next week was a drag.
I waited for my back to heal, while Kaden and Sterling patiently tended to me with medicine, while Reine simply supported and encouraged me. Kaden explained that Aiden would be checking in on me once a day, every day, to see how I was coping with my punishment. All Aiden was supposed to see was me, suffering in agony, the only medicine that I was receiving was the measly pain-killers he fed me. Yeah, he was missing out on the truth by a long shot.
Meanwhile, Sterling, Kaden and I discussed escape plans. It turned out that Kaden wanted to leave, too, to my instant happiness. Although, when Sterling found out, some sort of emotion flashed across his face. At first I thought it was jealousy, until I realized that it was closer to...happiness?
Kaden and I wanted to
