Chapter 137

She almost didn’t believe it when she heard the lock click. It took several tries at different keys before it finally worked. Anna threw on another sweater before she carefully creaked open the door and peeked into the hallways. She wasn’t sure how it had gotten so dark in such a short time, perhaps Jospeh took all of the light with him.
She quickly pushed his kind face away from her mind. Kindness counted for nothing when she wanted to survive—she learned that the hard way. Lessons are always learned the hard way and she had gone through more than a few of her own.
Slowly, Anna creaked the door open and slipped out through the small crack. She clicked the door shut and locked it behind her as if she hadn’t left the room at all. It would only fool them til morning, then they would be after her. Hopefully she would find the camp long before that happened.