36. Escaping Death

After minutes, I successfully stripped him of his clothes and put them on. The pants were baggy but I used his belt to hold it firmly together with his tunic. His boots were two sizes bigger so I left them on him.

I sucked in a long breath and sat on the bed beside Adrienne. I had a couple of hours left before the next change of shift. A normal person would be scared of being caught but I wasn't normal. It was either escape or death. I would kill myself before I let Katherine use me to become Fae. Her human self was cruel enough. Becoming Fae without any restrictions, with that sort of power--of which I still had no idea, the only Fae amongst humans on this side of the barrier would make her invincible. Maybe they deserve it after all. Maybe she should become Fae and kill them all but definitely not at my expense.

I refuse to be expendable for such cruel people. They hurt me. They took everything I held dear in my life. Why? I was different? Even if they hated me, I s