Chapter 11 Calculated Compliance

• Cleo's POV
• After thinking for hours, I realized that my only viable option was Russo. But he wouldn’t help me for free, I was certain. If I wanted his trust, I would have to play his game, be good to him, calm, and compliant. I needed to deceive him, to make him believe that I was slowly giving in, that I was coming around to his way of thinking. Only then could I gain enough freedom to leave this prison disguised as a mansion?
• It seemed like a perfect plan, and I was ready to execute it. But as hours turned into days, and days into weeks, Russo was nowhere to be found.