Chapter 106

SIENNA

Two Days Later

Time doesn’t pass here. It dissolves.

The days bled into each other, long and cruel, like a bruise that keeps spreading under the skin. I had no clock, no sun, no shift in light to mark the hours. Only that damn bulb, still flickering like it was mocking me.

I stopped counting after 7,100-something.

My lips were splitting. My tongue was thick, too dry to swallow. My thro