Chapter 13Thad squeezed his eyes shut before opening them. The pain shooting through his skull made him hold his breath and grit his teeth. He remembered having woken before, several times before, but he couldn’t remember where he was.
“You’re awake?” Sandy was whispering.
Thaddeus winced as daylight pierced his eyes. Had he slept through the night? With a hiss, he turned his head so he could see Sandy. “What time is it?”
Everything hurt. Why did everything hurt? He raised his hand to touch the back of his head, but couldn’t. There was a handcuff around his left wrist and the other part was fastened to a hoop in a metal pole. “Fuck.”
He looked around, taking in the cleared space with twelve poles forming a circle, and the pole with him attached to it, in the middle. “We’re in deep shit
