The three of them lay on one bed, with Dorothy sleeping in the middle.
She couldn't fall asleep.
Her mind raced all night long.
She considered the bigger picture, but she also thought of her own selfish desires.
She decided she couldn't just sit back and wait to be doomed.
She had the right to fight for her own happiness, and Dorothy had the right to be with her biological father.
By what right did Lillian Bancroft so single-mindedly hold her and her daughter captive?
After thinking it over and over, Chloe Marshall took advantage of a trip to the bathroom. She grabbed a pen and wrote a sentence on a tiny slip of paper: "A foolish bird is trapped in a cage, its wings broken."
This single sentence was the proof that would identify her as Chloe Marshall.
She clutched it tightly between her fingers, planning to give it to him during breakfast in the dining hall.
But as she drew closer to the dining hall entrance, she became incredibly nervous.
This was a huge risk.
