Chapter 99: Dream or Fate?

Sitting in the filthy darkness of the cell, I couldn’t help but wonder how long they planned to leave us here. The walls seemed to close in with each passing second, suffocating me in the stench that could choke an entire village. It had been more than half an hour since Jeremy and I last spoke. After I had told him I got a maidservant’s job, he had lapsed into silence, and I couldn’t help but wonder what he was thinking. I’d expected more questions, more probing. But silence was all I got. My mind, however, was far from silent. What had that insane Alpha been thinking, throwing us into this pit of misery? I wanted to scream, to rage at the injustice of it. Every breath I took seemed to coat my lungs with the foul air, and the smell of decay was so thick I could almost taste it. How was Jeremy sitting so calmly, as if none of this was affecting him? Perhaps his wolf senses made him immune to the stench. After all, wolves were supposed to have an extraordinary sense of smell, but Jer