Brotherhood Protectors: Vigilante Justice (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Jordan Dane's Mercer's War Series Book 3) by Jordan Dane

Author:Jordan Dane [Dane, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-06-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Ichiro cracked his eyelids open and stared into a blur of white until the fog cleared. He didn’t move. He couldn’t.

Voices came and went until someone pulled back the privacy curtain and he heard a clank at the foot of his bed. Someone took the clipboard from his gurney and flipped through the pages of his medical chart. He didn’t have to turn his head to realize he wasn’t alone.

The presence weighed heavy and he felt as if he were prey. He didn’t budge and didn’t make a sound. Ichiro kept his breathing calm and even, so no one would suspect he’d awakened, but he didn’t know if he could pull it off for long. The drapes closed and he listened again, without opening his eyes or shifting his head. Anyone could be watching.

A measured beep sounded in the distance until he peeked through his eyelashes and realized he had a white plastic clip attached to his fingertip. The beep came from the steady pulse of his heartbeat on a monitor. His body could betray him if he became excited or more fully awake and his faster heartbeats might bring someone to his bedside. With every blip, he fought for the monitor to stay the same, knowing it would be a losing battle.

As his senses cleared, and the drugs faded from his system, his awareness grew. When he dared to look down at his naked body, he noticed a white bandage on his hip and he felt the throb of pain deep into his bones.

What did they do to me?

The cruel men and women who held him hostage had performed a medical procedure on him while he was unconscious. Frantic, he looked for any other bandages or wounds, but when he didn’t see anything else, that didn’t mean the merciless men and women would not be back to take more from him.

Gabriela. Had he dreamed that she’d spoken to him?

He glanced to the other bed next to him, but couldn’t see through the curtain. Morbid curiosity drew him to peer through the gaps in the drapes, to make sense of what he saw. Medical machinery hissed and bleeped with nurses and doctors roaming the corridor between the beds. Patients were strapped to their gurneys as if they were lab rats. Each naked hostage had bandages on different parts of their bodies. If these patients were like him, they hadn’t condoned any of this.

A cold realization hit him as he stared into the medical ward of captives held against their will. Like the others, he feared his body would be harvested for parts until he had nothing left to give. He would die in the care of people who didn’t value his life. They believed his only worth would come on an illegal black market where a human organ would go to the highest bidder.

As a sudden panic gripped him hard, a second wave of terror twisted his belly and wouldn’t let go.

What happened to Gabriela?

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