Chapter 18

JADELYNN

Somehow, I had not died yet. That was hard to believe because it had been four months in this hell hole. Four months of being thrust into my worst nightmares each and every night. There was nothing I could do about it but endure.

A part of me sometimes hoped that one of the creatures would end up just killing me because I did not know how long I could keep doing this. Thoughts of my family always brought me back to reality. It was the thoughts of Thad that gave me the strength to endure each day for two reasons. One was that I would apologize one day because I could not even begin to imagine the pain he must have felt when he woke up without me in his arms. The second was that he knew that something was wrong, and I had faith that he would not rest until he found me. This was Thad. He was my world. I was his. There would always be a him and me in life.

Something interesting began happening a few weeks after I woke up here. Every few days, I would feel this tingling across m