"And what about Aldric?" As soon as she heard his voice, her heart leaped to her throat and her eager eyes remained fixated on the opening iron door.
That voice she had grown wanting to hear every single day she had been locked up, had finally whisked into her ear. Finally, her freedom had arrived and perhaps, deep down, she wanted to take one last glance at her white knight before she left.
She heard the loud clinking of his leather boots against the stone floor as he moved closer, she could see his shadows floating across the walls as the torchlight illuminated on his figure.
She swallowed anxiously as his figure finally came into her view as he stood behind the bars peering down at her from his towering height.
