Chapter 142

Arthur

My heart stops beating in my chest. I freeze in my spot, the guards still blocking my view even as I watch Levi going into his own corner.

"What is he doing in here?" I ask, a complete disregard for discretion on my part. I didn't mean to say it, but now I have to stick by it because they're looking at me with a strange expression that's bordering on suspicion. "Owen . . . is he going to fight too? Who are these fucking people?"

I fully expected the guards to not say anything and leave me rambling there, but to my utter surprise, they just look behind them as though to check what I was talking about.

"Owen will not be fighting," he says. "The others who will be fighting here are criminals like you are. They're here to get a chance to leave too."

I keep quiet. I wait there, listening to the sounds of chaos from outside, particularly from above. There are so many people now, it seems. There are chants going on now too. The sound is echoing in my actual chest, and all I can d