Chapter 120

Unknown POV

I’d been desperate to see her ever since they’d snatched Thea and thrown her into that dungeon in a condition worse than any ordinary prisoner’s. But I couldn’t afford a single slip-up. Draven had eyes on the place, and if I’d been discovered… I forced myself to wait until the guard shift changed, just before dawn.

I’d volunteered to stand watch outside Thea’s cell with a handful of warriors. After a few hours of pacing the corridor, I cleared my throat at the group. “I’m going in to check on the prisoner,” I murmured.

No one stopped me. I gripped the iron ring on the massive doors and pulled them open with a groan. I stalked down the narrow, torchlit passage until I came to a second, taller door. With the spare key I’d swiped from the guardhouse, I eased it open. It swung wide, and my breath caught: there she was, my mate, slumped against a chair like some broken thing. My heart shattered at the sight.

I stepped forward, and in that moment