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He slammed the back door shut.
I wondered where Egara would go now he was free.
I imagined him in his pirate ship, taking command of his men and raising hell.
It brought a smile to my lips.
Maybe he would find someone to love, a girl who wasn’t a damn Prize and had more value.
Okay, so maybe I was saying these things to make myself cry.
I’d been separated from the kindest prisoner I’d met and he’d been stripped from me.
If there was a reason to cry, it was now.
A slat at the front of the truck slid aside revealing the oversized leader of the team.
He leaned an arm through the window and peered back at the others.
The prison guards focused on their gloved hands and feet.
If I had to guess, I would have said they were forlorn.
“Will the warden launch a search party for him?” the guard closest to the leader said.
“I don’t know,” the leader said. “Probably not. Better to sweep it under the rug than let it be known a prisoner escaped Ikmal.”
A prisoner.
One.
That meant they had caught other escapees.
And they were letting him go without even chasing him.
Not that he would know that.
He would spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.
I snorted, realizing that wasn’t much of a change of pace for a pirate.
“The warden’s not going to be happy all we caught was his stinking Prize,” the agitated guard said, leaning back, folding his arms, and kicking at the truck wall.
A couple of the guards glanced in my direction.
I might not be able to read their expressions but their body language was clear enough.
They were pissed.
And I was the object of their disgust.
“Maybe the prisoner didn’t escape,” a guard halfway along the bench said. “Maybe we found him in the desert and we buried his body.”
The suggestion hung heavy over the assembled.
The leader shook his head.
“It’s bad enough he got away,” he said. “What do you think the supervisor will do to us if he discovers we lied to him?”
