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killed.”
    “I’m a man of my words, Selene. I intend to get you out of here .”
    “We’ll be separated soon.” She frowned, as awareness finally set in. How would she sav e herself now from that sicko they called Darius. She hadn’t been thinking rationally when she’d agreed. All she wanted was for them to let Nick live. “ They said they’d be back for me.”
    “I won’t let them take you.” He lifted himself, cringing as he bent at the waist.
    She steadied him. “Are you okay?”
    “Dizzy, yes, but nothing I can’t recover from.” He removed the bloodied cloth from his side.
    Selene braced herself again, not sure she’d be abl e to take in the gruesome wound again. But wh en she looked this time, the deep claw marks were closed over with what looked like new skin. She gasped. Blood caked around the scar, but most of it was dry.
    “How could you have healed that fast?”
    “It was nothing,” he mumbled. “Just some scratches.”
    “You didn’t see what I saw.” She shook her head in disbelief. “Only moments ago I could see your flesh. The cut was so deep that I didn’t think I could stop the blood flow.”
    “Well, you did. T hank you.” he replied. “Now we have to get you out of here.”
    “How can we escape this?” She lifted an arm, pointing towards the door. “Even if we did, how would we get past the guards out there?”
    “I’ll worry about that,” he said, carefully. “But this is no place for a woman to be. ”
    “It’s no place for anyone to be.”
    “At least we’re out of the cell.” Nick stood and then held his hand out to help her up. “Come.” He led her to the small window near the opposite side of the room. “I’m going to lift you up and I want you to tell me what you see.”
    He lifted her effortlessly using only his bare hands until she was eye level with the window. His hands were strong and firm at her waist
    She glanced o ut across the landscape and at the fields through which the guards had carried her. The sun was high in the sky, allowing her a clearer view of the surroundings outside of the dungeon walls.
    At first glance, the backdrop was beautiful. Had she not been confined, a view such as this would have been something she would have sat for hours looking at. Majestic mountain tops were as far as she could see. They were still dusted with the evidence of snow which had likely fallen the week before her visit. The ground and treetops were covered in frost. What was probably lush greenery was now a field of straw, hay, and crumpled grass.
    “What do you see?” he urged.
    “Nothing but fields and mountains.”
    He lifted her higher and the immediate perimeter of the building they were in came into view. “What about now?”
    There were two men working just outside the shed adjacent to them. “I can’t see the guards, but there are others close by. It looks like they’re hauling wood.” To the right of them , two wolves lay in the clea ring next to the field. “There are wolves.”
    “How many wolves?”
    “Two.”
    When Nick set her down on the ground again, she sighed. “There is no escaping. They’ll know.”
    “Have hope. We’ll do it tonight, as soon as the sun grazes the mountain tops.” He grabbed her shoulders. “I should tell you this…there is a long history between Darius and me. I have no doubt that he’s holding me for something other than my trespassing.”
    “A long history? What do you mean?” Did he know Darius personally?
    “Darius has been very spiteful over the last decade. There are things that I can’t actually tell you, but know that I will get you out of here.”
    “You’ve known him a decade?”
    “I’ve known him longer than that.”
    Nick moved to the bathroom stall and she followed. He splashed some water on his face.
    “Then you know these people? They’re not strangers to you?”
    H e turned to glance at her, but did not speak. He seemed to be weighing his words, as his gaze shifted behind