Bella’s POVThe door didn’t lock from the inside. That was the first thing I noticed once I’d stopped shaking long enough to actually think.Whoever had built this place had built it to keep things in, not to keep them comfortable, and comfort had apparently never extended to something as basic as an interior bolt. I tested the iron at my wrists again, twisting slow, feeling for any give in the metal, and found none. Whatever had been used to forge these restraints, it hadn’t been designed by someone careless.I forced myself to think past the fear instead of drowning in it. Panic wouldn’t get me out of this room. Only patience would, and patience had never been something Ronan’s father’s cruelty managed to fully break out of me, no matter how hard he’d tried across four years of trying. If anything, every cruelty he’d ever inflicted had only sharpened whatever stubborn core of me refused to simply give up when things looked hopeless.The lantern in the corner had burned low making lo
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