AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“I don’t know,” the guard said. “But I know what he’ll do to us if we tell the truth.”
What did these guys have to worry about? I thought. Their lives actually meant something.
They weren’t going to be tossed to the wolves the way I was.
They weren’t going to be forced to dress up in lingerie and paraded in front of ogling and howling dangerous prisoners.
They weren’t going to be handed over to a random alien fighter to be used as he wished.
I shook my head of the steaming hot tears threatening to spill down my cheeks once more.
I had just begun to get used to my place inside the prison when I escaped.
Now I had to get used to it all over again.
Only this time, it was worse.
I wished Egara had never rescued me.
I wished I’d never laid eyes on him.
I wished I’d never chosen that dress with the pendant he liked.
I wished…
I wished…
Oh, I didn’t know what I wished for!
I didn’t regret meeting him.
I didn’t regret sleeping with him.
And I definitely didn’t regret escaping with him.
It was the best thing that’d happened to me during my entire time at Ikmal.
I wouldn’t let my own selfish self-pity get in the way of that.
I would push through this setback the way I pressed through everything else.
I was a survivor, a fighter.
Just like Egara.
Crunk!
The van came to an immediate halt and tossed the guards forward, sliding along the benches and crashing into each other.
The van sat twisted at an unnatural angle having face-planted in a sandy ravine.
Odd, I thought, considering the truck didn’t have wheels.
It floated.
“All right,” the leader said. “Everybody out.”
The guards groaned as they shoved me out the back.
