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I can’t breathe.
My limbs are growing heavy.
It’s all happening so fast. A black-spotted veil clouds my vision and my stomach swirls. I’m about to pass out.
I’m thrown over a shoulder like a sack of potatoes. My head is spinning, my strength drained from my body.
The will to fight leaves me and blackness swallows me up once again.
Chapter Five
Ella
Thedistantbarkingofdogs pulls me out of the darkness.
Déjà vu…
Disoriented and my head in a thick layer of fog, I’m lying flat on my back in a warm, soft bed.
Where am I?
My heavy lids shoot open in alarm.
Ohhh…
I recognize the room.
Disappointment hits me. They caught me. I’m back to where I started.
No, no, no, no, no.
Tears well up in my eyes. This can’t be true.
My head hurts, and my entire body aches. Closing my eyes again, I cradle my head in my hands and let out a pained groan.
I feel like death warmed up.
As my senses float in and out, I eventually open one eye slowly, then the other, and growl in frustration.
Argh!!!
After risking my life, I’m back here. Climbing down that cliff side, and the arduous, almost never-ending journey along the rocky shore, was all for nothing.
How did they know to wait for me there?
Duh… it was the only place I could emerge from, short of me climbing up the cliffs. And I’m no monkey or mountain goat.
I shake my head in defeat. I failed.
Now what?
Memories of the goons who took me drift into my mind, and shudders run through my body. I lift the blanket to check I’m still clothed.
“You’re unharmed, princess. None of my men would dare touch what’s mine.”
Tiero’s voice comes out of nowhere.
I shoot up to sitting, clutching the blanket to my chest.
