CHAPTER 33

Angelina's pov

Convincing Ella to help me sneak out of my rooms proved an easier feat than I had expected. It seemed she also had someone she wanted to see, someone she actually needed to see but she had been assigned to me and she couldn't leave unless she was released.

No doubt that ugly fool Winston's work.

She took me through a secret passageway.

A place that opened when she pressed one of the bricks by the fireplace into the wall.

We went through unnoticed for most of it, Ella always told me to match our steps, so they wouldn't hear us. I wonder who would have heard two people creeping down a short ugly staircase.

The place wasn't as dusty as it should have been, which meant others used this passageway, I guess that is what Ella probably wanted us to avoid.

We moved like thieves in the night and soon we were under open sky and fields.

I wanted to fall down in the grass and sob.

Three days.

Three good days and the fool didn't think it necessary to come to see me, and like