Beauty In Her Madness (Winterland Tale Book 3) by Stacey Marie Brown

Author:Stacey Marie Brown [Brown, Stacey Marie & Brown, Stacey Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Voices, beeps, and hisses of air poked at my consciousness like an annoying sibling, dragging me back to the world.

“Carroll, calm down. The doctor said she will be fine.” I knew the tone of my father’s voice, and it made me pry my lashes apart, my blurry gaze taking in the room around me. My brain quickly recognized it was a hospital room. White, eggshell, off white…all the shades that made the room sterile and unfriendly covered the walls and bed.

What the fuck happened?

“I can’t believe this is happening again, Lewis.” My mother’s hoarse whisper drew my eyes to the figures standing right at the doorway. “To both our babies? I can’t go through this again. Haven’t we gone through enough?”

My father rubbed her back, not answering as my mother paced in a tight circle.

“What happened with Alice almost killed me…but Dinah? I cannot survive her too.” My mother’s voice pitched. “This shouldn’t happen to her of all people.”

“That’s not how it works.”

“I know, but Dinah is so levelheaded and logical.” Sobs came from my mother, her shoulders shaking, pain ripping through my heart. “My god, Lewis, they said she was attacking people trying to help her in the café. She was screaming and yelling about some monster. It’s like Alice all over again.”

“I know, my love.” My father gathered her in his arms. “I can’t believe it either.”

“What do we do?” She cried into his shoulder.

“We be there for her,” Dad replied, letting go. “We stay strong.”

Mom blinked rapidly, nodding her head, her expression pure agony.

“We don’t tell Alice.” Mom inhaled. I recognized her “decision making” face.

“What?” Dad stepped back.

“Not yet.” Mom held up her hand. “Let’s first see what’s going on.”

“Carroll…”

“Alice has scarcely recovered. She’s happy and healthy right now. Her life with Matt is good. I don’t want anything that might trigger her or cause her to relapse. Not until we know for sure.”

“Yeah.” Dad rubbed at his head, the silver in his caramel-colored hair catching the light. “You’re right.”

“Mr. and Mrs. Liddell?” A woman in a white doctor’s coat walked up to them. “I’m Dr. Avery. I have the test results back for Dinah.” She flipped a page on her clipboard. “So, everything came back relatively normal. No alcohol or hard drugs found in her system. Though we did find strange traces of psilocybin, but nothing that should cause a reaction like she had.”

“Psilocybin?” My mom shook her head in disbelief. “Like in mushrooms?” Her mouth dropped open. “My daughter does not take psychedelic drugs. No way. Not Dinah.”

“Carroll.” My dad put a hand on her arm. “What do you mean by strange, Doctor?”

The woman shook her head, her lips pinching. “We ran several tests at once, and they all came back different. The psilocybin evaporated at a rapid rate from the same sample, which isn’t possible. In all my years, I have never encountered anything close to it.” She drew the clipboard into her chest. “But I think we need to address the other cause for Dinah’s incident.

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