se's
n a thick fog of damp concrete
ve my hands, but the zip ti
hair, sitting in what looked like a basement
irectly above me, the g
ke." Holde
a white doctor's coat over his tactical gear. The getup was grotes
re we?"
ing out instruments on a metal tray. Needles, IV tubing, scalpels. "He thinks you ran
my voice growing a fraction s
rned to me, his eyes bloodshot and unhinged. "A
" I corrected him, holding
He picked up a thick needle, the metal g
rt... it's failing. The stress from you att
g against the plastic ties. "She's playing you,
fusion. It's the only way to keep her strength up until I can source a compatible heart donor from
oor o
n wal
with a healthy color. She looked perfec
asked, taking a loud, c
lief. "You're eating. You're w
at me. She lit
to a frail whisper. She leaned against the doorframe, letting th
ning me. "Sit down, baby. I'm starting the
the corner. She sat down, flashing
against the chair. "She's playing you! She's
bbed my arm, roughly swabbing the
wled. "You lost the right to speak th
l," I whispered. "
itation, he plunged t
lood surged through the tubing, flowing at an alarmi
dyn asked fr
hell,"
husband isn't comin
filling the plastic bag. A deep chill set into my bones. M
den name was Bowers. My
e them the satisfacti
ee
izing days handcuf
ned three bags
s. I was severely dehydrated, surviving on mere sips of water an
that supposedly led somewhere. The saline solution was just dripping onto the floor behind her cha
id, bored. "Maybe drain ano
s eyes bloodshot. He hadn't slept, entirely consumed by his
said coldly. She stood up and sauntered over to me. She scrut
h like a Mafia Queen right now,
look like a cheap whor
e reached out and brutally jamme
p to my shoulder, a
she ordered. "She still has
hing but a puppet, a weapon she
d for a f
I was destined t
hon
yes, the way he had loo
u don't walk ou
didn't come. Maybe Holden was right. M
The pull started again. A co
there wa
de the room,
Like a body hit
ze. "What
yn said, but her voice tremble
, his hands v
dyn insisted. "Alp
en him and Eloise. It'
d. Then the sound o
a gun from the t
toward
reach it, the steel
off its hinges by C4. The room ins
indly into the
d from the gray mis
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