The heavy iron door creaked open, casting a sliver of reddish torchlight across the frozen stone floor.
Roland stepped into the chamber, his boots echoing like a death knell in the damp silence. He adjusted his gloves, a sickening, triumphant sneer carving across his pale face as his yellow eyes locked onto Olivia.
"Your gallant knight has arrived," Roland purred, his voice dripping with poisonous amusement. "He truly is a relentless creature, isn't he? Running blindly straight into my web."
Olivia remained motionless against the cold wall, her posture stiff and unyielding. Beneath the dark folds of her heavy cloak, her freed fingers clenched into tight, trembling fists, hiding the fractured handcuffs that Serene had broken only moments ago.
