Nowhere to Hide

The second we stepped inside the house, I marched straight up to my bedroom and kicked the door shut behind me.

“Screw you, Draven!” I muttered under my breath, grabbing the handle to double-check the latch, only to remember a split second too late that locking it wasn’t an option. The hardware worked fine, of course, yet I was trapped under the roof of a complete dictator. His entire routine con