Dante's Second Chance

with a blinding

ndered what she ha

r head, she could feel somet

panicked for a moment as she co

as she tried to pry her e

a soft voice sa

h, her eyelids finally lifted and sh

mmediately as the light in

through her

?" she wondered as she gritted he

," the voice said as she f

d be better," said

r bedside again as if she was waiting for

rson moved

aned inwardly. Then she heard the l

red as she opene

ight in the room was bet

ugh it was still uncomfortabl

attached to her hand o

the pain and saw that her head w

d just before she heard the sou

he?" some

. They are also dilated by p

ed and she saw a middle-aged man

ou back with us. I am just going to elevate

nod, she already felt

fore smiled at her before Annabel

al, but the room she was in was unl

e fact that there were five other beds l

re empty, and the

ught a man standing

by the way he wa

is face shadowy, yet he

oked

rk with me here," the k

her eyes to him and ans

e cranial swelling and a need for monitoring, Annabe

as th

ere, like he was wai

e wa

she remember ho

fine enough to move about soon, but for

ything, the man stepped back and turned

made Annabelle unconsciously place he

head ring, and she did not he

k away the tears of pain i

belle's body as he

an all black suit,

ream, which she could have done if not for the pa

thing she wanted was to faint i

dn't let her look away

in her ears that made he

sent

o remember who had sen

d her body when she realise

e not rememb

er how and where sh

he was at the mercy of a man wh

was

ldn't rememb

n," he said in a chilling voi

sciously and nausea roll

ge of her vision, but she

wouldn

uld fa

looking at her with a passive gaze that

ed something out of his shoe. Still, without taking his eyes off her,

the object in his hand be

to knife. "What...what are you doing?" her pain did not matter to

e tapped the blade against his palm while looking at her face. "L

me." Annabelle forced out

cooperating and he

from her hand and turn

the bedside with t

came out forcefully in