Chapter Fifteen
The sudden light hurt Morgan’s eyes and made her headache worse. She squinted and blinked, trying to understand where she was and how she came to be here. Then a heavy door boomed open, startling her into full wakefulness and she remembered bits and pieces of the long and uncomfortable journey that brought her to this place.
Morgan found herself in a damp windowless cell of concrete block. A chain rattled when she sat up, and she felt the heavy downward pull on her iron collar immediately. Other discomforts clamored for attention. Her thirst was terrible, and the damp chill of the place caused a shivering that she could not control. She had been sleeping with her hands shackled behind her. That had left her wrists chafed and her shoulders aching. Cold steel encircled her
