Chapter 72: Escape

Elara's POV

The bathroom door rattled as one of the guards pounded his fist against it.

"Two minutes are up," he growled through the door. "You coming out or are we coming in?"

"Just a second!" I called back, my heart racing as I stared at the narrow window high on the wall.

It was my only chance. The window was small—too small for most adults to fit through—but I'd spent three years as a lone