Chapter87: I PLEDGE

For days Quinn stayed locked up without water, without food…tied up in the same room as her father. She didn’t speak to him, and he didn’t make a move to speak to her either. The silence was smothering, it tormented her fiercely throughout the day and throughout the night. He didn’t utter an apology, he could barely even look her in the eyes. He was probably ashamed of himself, after slurping down the scrap Jake’s men brought them to eat, then of course he should be ashamed. Eating off a plate that had somebody else’s left over…Quinn couldn’t do it, no matter how hungry she was. She might’ve been stupid enough to swallow the poison her mother gave her in her foolish attempt to regain her mother’s love and attention, but she wasn’t going to do this. She’d been confused and she’d withheld a different kind of hunger back then; a hunger for affection. She thought her mother would’ve pitied her, but it turned out, that woman wasn’t even her mother and this man…he wasn’t her father either. T