Chapter 21
I was slipping. I could feel my mind slipping away, like water through my fingers.
Three weeks here and I'm going crazy. No. I'm not crazy, crazy people are crazy. I'm just…
I don't know what to do with myself. I have no plan, no encouragement, no anything. Not even a mind. Ariek and Karyanna expect everything from me. Everything I don't have. I just sit curled up in my cage, always looking forward, barely speaking. I listen to what Kary and Ariek say about me when they think I'm asleep. They don't know what's going on. They think its all part of the plan. Riiiight.
Sometimes I listen in on the Whitecoats conversations. They find what's happening fascinating. Mind deterioration, they called it. Glad at least someone finds me fascinating. And not crazy.
Crazy.
Ethan said it was my fault. I'm the reason this happened. And he is one hundred percent right. If only I hadn't been so damn ignorant.
"Charlotte, don't let anyone ever see your wings. Promise me." Never show anyone who I truly was. I hated it. But I never dared to disobey my parents. Until one day. The day I met Ethan. I don't know why I felt so compelled to show him. But I did. And we both payed the price.
I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without my parents, but I snuck off one day to show Ethan my favorite place. The Park. I was so overjoyed with my success that I failed to notice the two men that had been tailing us. We were both taken that day.
"Charlotte your wings are so cool, I wish I had a pair too!" Little did he know that you had to go through Hell to get them.
Now because of my stupidity and recklessness I put him through that and he hates me for it. I don't blame him, that makes two of us.
I need to get out of here. Fly as far away from here. Start a new life. But that won't happen. I'm not leaving.
There's no one who can save me.