Broken Princess_Trapped in a Cult by Skye Mackinnon

Author:Skye Mackinnon [MacKinnon, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peryton Press
Published: 2018-11-03T04:00:00+00:00

16

This time, the nurse removes the dressings without putting new ones on. I feel much stronger as well, and the thought of leaving the hospital is ticking through my mind. Leaving without them, the three men tasked with protecting me. I don't need protection. I'll find a quiet place to live in peace until Andros and the others are released. Then, everything can go back to how it was before the new men arrived. I wish they'd never come.

I slowly sit up and the nurse puffs up a pillow before sliding it behind my back. Black spots dance in front of my eyes for a second, but when they disappear, I smile. I'm sitting and I'm no longer covered in bandages. Things are improving, but the best thing is yet to come: there's a brownie waiting for me on the small table beside my bed. I saved it for later, and I think now it's time to enjoy that chocolaty goodness. I breathe in deeply and my smile widens. Chocolate smell is the best, almost better than the taste.

I take a tentative bite, but before I can even swallow it, the door bursts open and two men run in. Leek looks around the room as if he's expecting someone else to be there, while Andrew hurries to my side, beginning to detach cables from the machines without a word.

"We need to go," Leek says, his voice full of alarm and urgency. "No time to explain, but we need to get you out of here right now."

I clench my fist around the brownie that was supposed to be this afternoon's treat. It's worthless now. They've destroyed yet another day for me.

I shriek when Martin, no, Andrew pulls out the cannula from my wrist without warning. He puts some gauze on top of it. "Press that on it," he instructs me brusquely before continuing to free me from the monitors.

"What's going on?" I ask weakly, but all I get is a grunted "later" from Leek. He's rolled a wheelchair closer to the bed and without a word, Andrew lifts me up and puts me on it.

"You can't do that," I complain, but I'm too weak to fight them. Leek wraps a thick blanket around me, and off we go, out of the room, with Andrew wheeling me along the hospital corridor towards an elevator. "Are you kidnapping me?"

Leek chuckles, the first positive sound those two have made since they stormed into my room. "In a way. Don't worry, we're not the bad guys. We'll explain everything once we're in a secure location."

"Secure location sounds a lot like kidnapping," I mutter under my breath, but the sound of the elevator doors opening camouflages the sound. Andrew wheels me in and we take the lift down to the lowest level, the car park.

"You took your sweet time," Quentin greets us as soon as we step, or in my case roll, out of the elevator. He's standing in front of a strategically parked van which is covered in advertising for an office cleaning company.

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