Betrayal

We spent the whole night and the next day together, talking slowly about everything that had happened. It was as if everything around us melted away and the world seemed to just stop.

I panicked every time there was a slight sound, but he assured me no one would come up this way. He was a general after all. This only made me laugh, but did nothing to ease the worry. Surely they would be searching every inch of the building for me.

At one point there was a knock on the door and Blake urged me to hide in the closet. The men at the door had sounded gruff, almost urgent. But Blake’s dismissive and authoritative tone had them turned away within minutes. I had thought my heart was going to explode from my chest in panic.

After that, he spent half of the time going over every detail of how had safely made it in here. The story had me clinging to the edge of the bed, knowing he could have been caught at any time.

Blake seemed very casual about it though, which confused me a little. Blake w