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Sofor once in your life

I wanted to cry at the self-inflicted jab, but I was still too dizzy to do anything but hang there, puke in h my painfully dry eyes and the manacles on my wrists

“Ethan,” I heard Lucy whisper I wanted to tell her to run again, but I didn’t even have enough energy to open my mouth, let alone try to form words

“Lucy, get him some water”

Awareness returned as the heavy tinize seeped into my brain

“Ethan, just take deep breaths”

I did as the voice toldmy wrists They ar me

Other things started to slowly coed to open ain It wasn’t the hardness of a floor beneath me, but the softness of a mattress…much softer than the mattress from the house Lucy and I had spent the last month in The scent of mildeasn’t heavy in the air and there was no bitterly cold breeze washing over aps between the s and their frames

Confusion settled overI hurt like I usually did after one of Eric’s “lessons”, but as I still even upright after throwing up on him?

Maybe I hadn’t puked?

My eyes focused enough to see that I had, in fact, retched all over myself and the blanket that was half-on, half-off my lap

My naked lap

What the hell?

“Ethan, take another breath”

I forced aze up and instantlyas I suspected they could have

Cain

Awareness returned in waves as I realized where I was

“Lucy,” I whispered, pleased that at least this tih my voice sounded like I still had Eric’s hands wrapped around my throat