VALERIE
My heart froze when I heard Adriana's voice behind me. I slowly slipped my clammy hands off the bars and turned around to face her. Her face held a scowl, which I had come to be quite familiar with, and her thin lips pursed out, making her look uglier than she already was.
“My lady," I forced myself to bow down before her.
“And what are you doing here?" she said in a voice dripping in venom and hostility.
My throat knotted as I began to search desperately for answers to her question.
I never thought about it while she scanned my body with her glaring eyes.
I was trapped and needed a way out as soon as possible. I knew what she would do if she found out my plots and the reason I was there.
She had always wanted to get rid of me and this was the perfect way to.
“Are you deaf?" Her snap shot me back to reality.
I batted my lashes severally and shook my head, stammering and longing for an escape route.
An idea suddenly popped into my mind and I said it withou
