#Chapter 43- Escape the Curse

Ruby The Queen finishes her lecture on the curse and Alice escorts me back to my room. Alice seems to be very pleased with herself as we walk back, and I think that I can hear the lock click when she closes the door, but I’m too preoccupied with this newfound information to care. I have to find a way out of here. Regardless of whatever feelings for Atwood that may have arisen over the past couple of months, I have no desire to stay now that I know about the curse. Why didn’t he tell me sooner? Why would he be so desperate to have a mate that he wouldn’t warn me about a curse that will plague any of his mates? I think back to Edith sitting on Atwood’s desk, flirting with him. She can have him. Taking out my phone, I open my contacts. My thumb hovers over Cayden’s name for a moment as I bite my lip, but then I press it and hold the phone to my ear. He picks up on the first ring. “Ruby? Is that you?” I can’t seem to find the words right away