The dungeon's musty air clung to my skin as Astor and I descended the winding stone staircase. Flickering torchlight cast eerie shadows on the damp walls, and I couldn't shake the feeling of being watched by unseen eyes.
Ugh, creepy. They probably kept the dungeons like this to demoralize prisoners—given the near-perfect state of the rest of the manor, anyway.
"Are you sure about this, Olivia?" Astor's deep voice echoed in the narrow passage. I struggled not to roll my eyes.
“I’m not a wilting daisy, Astor, I can handle a creepy basement,” I said. He was getting a little more protective, a natural reaction whenever for any Alpha spending enough time around a pregnant woman, and while it was better than snark it still wasn’t my favorite thing. I counted it as an improvement anyway.
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