CHAPTER 86

  Raleigh

  I peeked around the corner of the hallway, checking both sides of the clearing. Nobody was within reach from one side of the hallway to the other. I snickered to myself, tip-toeing past the bronze-colored door that I had been trying to escape from for days. It loomed over me, making no move whatsoever to try and grab me again. Aggravated voices carried into the hallway, but I could care less. He was distracted, that was good. I felt like a spy, just without all the cool gadgets and a back-up partner.

  Two weeks. That was how long it had been since I had returned home from the hospital. Two weeks under house arrest, and two weeks closer to my death bed. Honestly, I knew Lucien was just worried about me, but he could at least let me walk around my own house! I mean, I know I'm clumsy, but I'm not that clumsy.

  Besides, Louis only said I had to stay in bed for a few days. It was weeks! I had every right to be moving around and stretching my legs.