[Ava’s POV]

I’m fed up of the sweaty back upon which I have been for many hours. My new captors don’t seem to say much, their faces are covered in black cotton masks and their agility causes my heart’s to skip in fear. All my life, I haven’t seen huge men, gathered in a single gang as the ones before me. The ease at which they had obliterated Baldwin and his gang was as surprising as it was scary.

However, fear is not a virtue I host in my defiant mind. My doggedness and strong will to survive has gotten me this far even though I now suspect I’m being...