Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 77292 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 386(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77292 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 386(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
I feel around the base of my skull. “Pretty big lump on the back of my head, and I’m a little queasy. You?”
“Same here.” He pauses. “Fuck, Alissa.”
I lean against the wall. “What are we going to do?”
For the first time since I met him two weeks ago, Maddox utters three words. The most terrifying three words I’ve ever heard from him. They hit me like three tiny arrows to my heart.
“I don’t know.”
The room has a window. It’s covered by a piece of plywood, and bars are fixed to it.
I return to the door. Pound at it until my fists are bloody.
But no one’s coming.
Because we’re exactly where Rouge wants us to be.
The King and Queen of Diamonds have been played.
And now they’ll wait, at the bottom of the deck, until the next hand is dealt.