Chapter 12

AMELIA

Clutching on to the cold bar, I desperately pleaded with the guard standing by my cell, "Let me out! Why are you keeping me here?" My words fell on deaf ears, and the other prisoners making a run for the exit door seemed to mock my desperation.

The ceiling vibrated with the sounds of hurried footsteps and distant screams. I looked up at the ceiling, as it seemed it would give way at any moment, but it didn't. Panic coursed through my veins at the uncertainty of what was going on or what was going to happen to me.

He said I was his mate, yet he decided to keep me locked up in here. I knew he wasn't my mate; he was just a liar.

As the commotion escalated, I pressed against the iron bars, "Please, you have to tell me what's going on!"

The guard's stern look wavered for a moment, but he refused to meet my gaze. He either didn't know or he didn't want to speak to me.

Frustration bubbled within me at his silence. I gritted my teeth, closing my eyes and opening it as I furrowed my b