Darkmore Penitentiary
Caroline Peckham & Susanne ValentiMy Aunt Bianca’s words echoed through my head a thousand times, mocking, taunting, chastising me. Because right now, in this moment, I just wished I’d goddamn listened to her.
But this job had been too fucking perfect to turn down. And they’d needed the best. Which everyone knew meant me.
Besides, I’d been waiting for an opportunity like this for a hell of a long time. There was a debt I needed to pay. A wrong I had to right. And it was long past time that I made good on my promises.
I gritted my teeth and just kept crawling, using my earth magic to force the dirt and rubble aside as I went and channelling it behind us. And yes, that meant that I was filling in the tunnel as I created it. And yes, that meant I was effectively burying us alive. And yes, that was about eighty percent terrifying