The Gilded Cage

~SIENNA’S POV~

The biting wind swept across the estate grounds, rustling the dry hedges and chilling the skin of my cheeks. At some point during these endless weeks of confinement, the sharp terror that used to choke me had burned down to ash. Nothing took its place except a heavy, hollow numbness. My life had shrunk into a dull, suffocating routine: wake up, force food down, pace the grounds, an