chapter 21

Mina Wolf...

My eyes hurt at the intensity of my tears that refused to stop.

Hours. I cried, sobbed, hated my existence for hours.

I stayed rolled up in the two blankets without moving for those hours.

Even when my tears finally dried up, I couldn't get myself to move.

My muscles were aching at being balled up for hours and my entire body was screaming at me.

The side of my face was throbbing and I could still taste blood in my mouth. The spots where the man had grabbed me were stinging. I was certain bruises have already formed on my pale skin.

No one came to my cell but at some part of the day, maybe a little while after Raphael left me, I did hear the dungeon door opening and a few footsteps entering.

But the footsteps echoed away from my cell until I couldn't hear them any longer.

A few footsteps returned before they walked up the stairs and left.

I briefly wondered what was going on. Last I checked, no one was in this dungeon other than me.

Throughout the entire day,