Chapter 82

Kaelen’s POV

After an hour, Gideon stopped, his face filled with dread. “Shouldn’t we go back out there?” he asked quietly, as if the suggestion itself hurt.

I met his gaze, my chest aching with the same guilt. “She probably thinks we hate her… that we’re abandoning her to their cruelty,” I murmured. “But it was necessary. If we hadn’t tied her to that post, if we hadn’t made it look like we were