Ariana’s POV

Five days went by, and I was locked in the room which was my prison. After my confrontation with Lucas, I never saw him again.

I have been checking on the kids once a day, and the guards would let me say more than an hour under Lucas' orders, Maria kept me informed about all that had been going on and told me how she had kept the kids safe.

I was restricted from a lot of things, I couldn’t go out of my room on my own, and I wasn’t given access to a phone, Maria stopped coming around after a while, as it became suspicious.

But...