Betrayed and Confined

My entire body ached. It felt like I had plummeted off a cliff. The icy sting of the stone floor seeped into my bare skin. My head pounded.

I blinked my eyes open. The dark forest was gone. Pitch black shadows clung to the damp walls of a cramped cell. The air tasted like rust and old dirt.

"You're awake."

I flinched. Silas stood near a heavy iron door. The timber wolf who had tackled me to