With him gone, there was only one guard left in the cell.
I smiled in the darkness.
My plan was working. I just needed to…
“why is this happening now? It’s such a hassle!”
The remaining security guard didn’t seem to realize the gravity of the situation. Grumbling, he also brought out his phone to flash a light in the cell.
Colin hadn’t moved. He was still in the corner of the cell, his head drooping limply.
“Hey, are you okay?”
The guard called him tentatively, but Colin didn’t move a muscle. “Hey, I’m talking to you!” Frowning, the guard walked to Colin to check on him.
I seized the opportunity to secretly stretch out my foot.
Aside from the faint Light of the guard’s phone, the dungeon was still very dark. And the guard’s attention was on Colin, not on where he was going.
The next second, he tripped on my outstretched foot and landed on the dirty ground with a thud. “Ouch!”
The guard dropped his phone, extinguishing the only light in the dungeon. In the blink of an eye, a figure rushed out.
Angela’s Library
To distract the guard, I shouted loudly, “Ah! Help! I’m so scared!” All of a sudden, I felt a pair of strong arms wrapping themselves around my waist.
“Don’t be afraid. I’m here with you.”
Being so close to Caleb, I could clearly feel his heart beating rapidly in his chest, and his breath sprayed against my ear, tickling me. Once again, his intoxicating scent filled my nose, rendering me unable to think straight.
Damn it! This jerk was trying to take advantage of me again!
I tried to keep calm and reached up to push Caleb away. But he seemed to have foreseen this reaction, because he quickly reminded me in a Low voice, “You don’t want Carlos’ efforts to be in vain, do you?”
Biting my Lip, I stopped trying to push him away.
The plan I had proposed to Caleb was to let Colin escape, but Caleb wasn’t convinced. “If we let him out, he’ll keep making trouble for us.”
“Then what do you think we should do?”
“I’ll ask Carlos to lock him up someplace else. That way, Colin won’t have the chance to expose you, nor will he be able to go back to the Silver Ridge Pack to get reinforcements. “
Indeed, Caleb’s plan was a lot better than mine.
