Chapter 29: Victor's Truth

Clarissa's P.O.V.

Time seemed to pass by slowly as I laid in the cell pondering the many ways I would kill them all. Especially my traitorous father. The council members came in now and again to admire the prize captured, and on more than one occasion, I heard them praising my father for catching the monster.

If anyone was a monster, it was them.

The unlocking of my cage sounded in the darkness, and a tiny bit of light gave way to the giant figure of a man I had come to name Tanto. I wasn't sure what his real name was because all he ever did was grunt his answers, but he was my jail keeper.

Tantos's rough hands gripped my wrists as he unlocked the silver cuffs attached to the floor and place them on two different ones. He pulled on the new chain and dragged me from my cage towards the main door of the dungeon.

Alyssa had once told me that they no longer used dungeons, and that was a lie; wait till I tell her that ours is getting renovated. Victor's face was the last I wanted to see,