Chapter 12 Punishment

Dread seeped into every fiber of my being as his words hung in the air, like a looming storm ready to break. My knuckles turned white as my fists clenched the bedsheet beneath me, the fabric twisting and bunching under my grip.
"I didn't" I lied to protest, to save myself from the punishment he just mentioned.
"You have no reason not to find the route to escape and the informer has no reason to lie"