Chapter 34
Grady huffed a breath and then began to tape me up. "How did you escape?"
"Through the window in the room Faust kept me in for hours and hours. I told him about the fake poison, made it seem even deadlier and everything, and he said his supply was already full until winter was over."
"Shit," Archer said, releasing his hold from my other shoulder. "I'm sorry."
"What are you going to do with no money?" Grady started to pace with his long, limping strides, the floorboards groaning under his muscled weight. "Go back to your family and hope for the best this winter?"
A sense of hopelessness flooded down on top of me, so heavy and defeating that it took a moment to draw another breath. "That's just it. Most of my family is in Old Man's Den."
Grady stopped pacing. "I thought you said - "