Chapter 193 Chapter one hundred and ninety three

Lena’s POV

Dawn came not as a sunrise, but as a subtle, sickening shift in the quality of the dark.

I sat upright on the edge of the plush mattress, my back stiff and aching, my eyes raw from a night of restless, fitful half-sleep.

Every time my eyelids had grown heavy over the past eight hours, t...