Stronger

Annette POV:

It took a while and I couldn’t work fast because the bed would freak and I had to be careful not to put any weight on the right side but eventually, I got the support joint off of it. It was hard enough and sharp enough that if I slammed it

into the small window I could break the glass.

After I did that I’d have to clear the remaining shards quickly before jumping. The jump still terrified me and I prayed to the goddess to guide me safely. I couldn’t remember if I should straighten my legs or if was I supposed to bend

them. Should I keep my arms out or in?

I waited that day quiet and calm I didn’t normally speak so it wasn’t alarming to any of them. Marcus had stopped visiting me a few days ago and I was beyond thankful. By the whispers, he and Marcus had fought.

I had replayed what would happen over and over in my mind for the past week. Each night going over the movements and the steps. My fingers slowly loosen the bolts on the bed as best my fingers could reach.

Tonight the small guards would be on duty and they always didn’t speak, their eyes pointed forward my water bowl was over by one of the guards so if I pretended to drop a towel I could swipe the silver syringes off of him.

When the two smaller skinnier men walked into the room my heart rate spiked for a couple of minutes it was getting closer. For some reason, I’d felt stronger and stronger every day I couldn’t explain it but it

gave me the strength and courage to attempt this.

When I saw the moonlight filter in fully through my small window. I gulped before getting off of my bed and going over to the wash bowl pouring in some water and washing my face and then accidentally dropping the towel and spilling some water.

“Damn,” I whispered before kneeling down to pick it up.

I quickly bent down and kept my head pointed to the floor but my eyes went to the vials of poison. I moved as quickly as I could grabbing the small vials and gently pulling them out of the guard’s belt.

I wiped up the water with one hand keeping my breath even as I pulled my hand back. My wrist slightly grazed the silver bars and I gulped down the yelp. My wrist burned a bit but that was gonna have to fester.

I grabbed the two injections not really believing it worked. Deacon should have made this adjustment in person

instead of ordering Marcus to oversee it. The latter was a little shortsighted, I grinned stood back up, and continued to wash my face with a new towel.

Then quickly as I could I took one of the injections and jabbed the guard in the back not moving from my place I pressed in the glittering liquid. He grunted and went to sleep so it just sounded like a cough. I looked over to see if any of them noticed and they didn’t.

I sighed a soft sigh of relief before hiding the empty vile in the wet towels I crossed the cell and went to put them in my hamper. Setting up the next injection–in–my other hand.

I jabbed him and he didn’t even notice and he slowly went off to sleep. I tossed the syringe in with my laundry. I

grabbed a sweater before I pretended to straighten out my bed. The guards would be asleep for hours so I didn’t have

to worry.

“Can’t make my bed right,” I snipped and moved my nightstand over a little as I adjusted my sheets.

Did they realize it now sat under the window no, they didn’t. I got into my bed and counted to 60 five times, my heart thudding as loudly as possible my hands wrapping around the metal support joint and my sheet.

Tm coming,” I whispered aloud.

I got up and pretended to stretch out, but a cramp hit my hands full. I got onto the nightstand and WHACK. The glass didn’t shatter WHACK CRACK WHACK

“HEY!” I heard as they clammered over themselves in the control room.

I turned the metal bit so the sharpest point extended out WHACK. finally, the glass gave way and shattered I cleared most of it away with the bar my hands sweating.

Behind me, they fumbled with the keys and others tried to shake the unconscious guards awake. I used the sheet covered by the glass jumping up my arm got cut but I got my top through the window.

For the first time in however long it had been fresh air hit my lungs.

“NO!” I heard behind me.This content belongs to Nô/velDra/ma.Org .

I called forth whatever strength I had and pushed myself out of the hole and out of captivity, free–falling toward the water. I didn’t have time to think of bending my legs or if I had my arms out because I was already falling.

I breathed in panicked breaths as I fell and before I knew it cold water greeted me and encased my whole body. In the end, my back hit the water. I didn’t die.

I swam up to the surface and heard alarms blaring but I just laughed. I lived. I lived. I swam over the large rock and started swimming as closely as I could. The water was cold truly cold, sharp and it hurt but I kept going, adrenaline my best friend guiding me through it.

Not that far ahead I saw a small beach. Surely they’d know I would go there but I didn’t have much of a choice. I swam for my life as quickly as I could

I hauled myself onto the beach and ran into the trees. I didn’t know where I was and my ears were ringing but I ran all the same. My clothes had red splotches here and there from my blood but that would have to wait.

I kept going my breath ragged and my lungs burned my feet in their small sippers that was all I had to cover them. Still, I kept going. One picture in my mind, Grayson holding him. Our little bundle, I’d be home so soon and I wouldn’t ever go anywhere else again.

I kept my body going and running through trees over dead pine needles and rocks past bushes and animals, and through the forest under the stars. I pushed on even when I started to truly hurt not giving up I had to go until I couldn’t they had cars, and bikes I had two feet. I changed directions here and there to throw them off my track and stay ahead of them

I used the north star as my guide, like all wolves do but I felt so, so, free, I let outa dry laugh as I kept running and a new energy took hold of my body and I pushed on my legs remembering the joy of sprinting, I felt the air in my lungs pumping me forward and dug my toes in eahe time reloishing the cold wet of the mud. Dld trees always smell this sweet?

When the sun started to peak it’s way into the sky I decided I had run far enough I slowed down no one was in sight and I couldn’t hear a sound, I found a cave but decided it was too obvious so I kept going eventually stumbling upon a tree with a hole under and I grabbed a couple of branches before I crawled in and covered up the entrance.

Fis out I love you

I tied but the same black void met my mind, I still had the venom in my veins sol closed my eys and tried to sleep. I flinched at every little noise at first but exhaustion is unbeatable and I eventually fell asleep.

And when I awoke…I was stil under the tree, safe for now..

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