Sadie POV
It seems like hours. I've spent an uneasy night, drifting in and out of sleep with Gray beside me, listening for the sounds of approaching footsteps. I didn't trust Thorn not to make a nightly visit, despite his assurances, although I knew that Gray would have alerted me that someone was trying to come inside. I woke up early, or I presume it was early, it was difficult to tell without windows, and had looked over every single inch of the room with my eyes narrowed, searching for something with which to either force the door open or for some sort of weakness in the walls. Unsurprisingly there was nothing. The only thing that I could comfort myself with was the knowledge that with luck Deidre had made her escape and would no longer be used as a bargaining chip against me. It brou
