Goosebumps arising, the pictures of the burned student's gruesome wounds came to my mind.
When did Jude come in, and why hadn't I heard him at all?
Only now did I feel the terror again, which I had felt on my first night here, when he stared down on me like a god.
I had let my guard down, having come to the crazy conclusion that Jude wouldn't harm me. Why wouldn't he? We had no special mother-son bond or any other kind of connection.
If he could set a student on fire, he could do the same to me. But instead of getting him into a military camp after revealing his crime, I helped to cover it up.
Misjudged. Yet again.
I could already imagine me and my 'husband' burning to death in this bed. My survival instincts kicked in, but not in a normal way, like screaming, like waking Thomas and asking him for help.