Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 116

Annette POV:

It took a while and I couldn’t work fast because the bed would freak and I had to be careful not to put any weight on the right side but eventually, I got the support joint off of it. It was hard enough and sharp enough that if I slammed it

into the small window I could break the glass.

After I did that I’d have to clear the remaining shards quickly before jumping. The jump still terrified me and I prayed to the goddess to guide me safely. I couldn’t remember if I should straighten my legs or if was I supposed to bend

them. Should I keep my arms out or in?

I waited that day quiet and calm I didn’t normally speak so it wasn’t alarming to any of them. Marcus had stopped visiting me a few days ago and I was beyond thankful. By the whispers, he and Marcus had fought.

I had replayed what would happen over and over in my mind for the past week. Each night going over the movements and the steps. My fingers slowly loosen the bolts on the bed as best my fingers could reach.

Tonight the small guards would be on duty and they always didn’t speak, their eyes pointed forward my water bowl was over by one of the guards so if I pretended to drop a towel I could swipe the silver syringes off of him.

When the two smaller skinnier men walked into the room my heart rate spiked for a couple of minutes it was getting closer. For some reason, I’d felt stronger and stronger every day I couldn’t explain it but it gave me the strength and courage to attempt this.

When I saw the moonlight filter in fully through my small window. I gulped before getting off of my bed and going over to the wash bowl pouring in some water and washing my face and then accidentally dropping the towel and spilling some water.

“Damn,” I whispered before kneeling down to pick it up.

I quickly bent down and kept my head pointed to the floor but my eyes went to the vials of poison. I moved as quickly as I could grabbing the small vials and gently pulling them out of the guard’s belt.

I wiped up the water with one hand keeping my breath even as I pulled my hand back. My wrist slightly grazed the silver bars and I gulped down the yelp. My wrist burned a bit but that was gonna have to fester.

it worked. Deacon should have

oversee it. The latter was a little shortsighted, I grinned stood back up, and continued to wash my

I took one of the injections and jabbed the guard in the back not moving from my place I pressed in the glittering liquid. He grunted and went to sleep so it just sounded like a cough. I looked

sighed a soft sigh of relief before hiding the empty vile in the wet towels I crossed the cell and went to put them in my hamper. Setting up the next injection–in–my other

slowly went off to

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Chapter 116

sweater before I pretended to straighten out my bed. The guards would be asleep for hours so

to worry.

right,” I snipped and moved my nightstand over

realize it now sat under the window no, they didn’t. I got into my bed and counted to 60 five times, my heart thudding as

coming,” I

pretended to stretch out, but a cramp hit my hands full. I got onto the nightstand and WHACK. The

they clammered over themselves in

gave way and shattered I cleared most of it

keys and others tried to shake the unconscious guards awake. I used the sheet covered by

however long it had

heard behind

the hole and out of captivity, free–falling toward the water. I didn’t have time to think of bending my legs or if I had my

in panicked breaths as I fell and before I knew it cold water greeted me and encased my whole body. In

swimming as closely as I could. The water was cold truly cold, sharp and it

Surely they’d know I would go there but I didn’t have much of

I was and my ears were ringing but I ran all the same. My clothes