Nina
My heart dropped at the girl’s words.
“Too merciful?” I asked. “What did I do to you to deserve any of this?”
The girl merely shrugged. She seemed so nonchalant that it made me sick, but before I could say anything else, she suddenly looked at her watch. “Oh!” she said, grinning at me. “It looks like it’s time for me to go. Enzo will be ready for me any minute.”
I opened my mouth to ask her what she meant, but before I could, she opened a portal and vanished. Was she meeting Enzo to marry him already? I felt a pit form in my stomach at the thought. What if they mated and he forgot all about me, leaving me in here until the day I died?
No, I thought to myself. I couldn’t lose hope.
…
I couldn’t be sure exactly how long I was trapped there. It could have been hours or even days s
