Driven by Dean Murray

Author:Dean Murray [Murray, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-05-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Jasmin Bianchi

McCleary Gas and Grub

Great Bend, Kansas

I ended up in Kansas less out of some kind of grand plan and more because it was hard to get much more centrally located. That and because I needed to keep moving. I'd sent Alec a text once I made it back to the car and got myself bandaged up. There hadn't been a response, not that I'd particularly expected one. If I'd been further north he probably would have tried to get me to go up and help out one of the other groups that were being tailed, but I wasn't so he didn't.

At the time I'd been relieved that he wasn't trying to sidetrack me into doing him a favor, but now I wasn't so sure. I was out here driving around with no backup, just Ben and I, on nothing more than faith in Rachel and an unhealthy measure of rapidly-diminishing hope.

Right before she'd disappeared she'd found me and told me that I needed to find someone named Geoffrey. Rachel had been acting weird lately, and she'd been at her weirdest that night, but it had been a convincing performance, convincing enough at least to get me out here.

I looked over at Ben and frowned at what I saw. His health had been steadily declining for weeks, ever since I'd rescued him from the vampires who had been holding him captive. Alec had paid for some of the best doctors in the state to take a look at him, but nobody had been able to explain his coma.

That was why Rachel had only needed to provide me with the barest glimmer of hope to convince me this idiocy was actually a good idea. When there aren't any other options, it's amazing what a person will do to try and save someone they love.

Ben had actually been doing pretty well right before we'd left. It had gone against everything I knew about his condition, but it had been an undeniable fact. He'd spent nearly two hours disconnected from the machinery responsible for monitoring his condition, two hours without an IV drip, two hours of smoke and terror where none of us had been sure we'd survive. That should have caused his condition to deteriorate sharply, but instead he'd seemed almost to the point of waking back up on his own.

He'd started swallowing on his own. I'd actually been able to feed him some broth in the RV right before I'd said goodbye to Alec and the others. I'd kept him on an IV drip since then, initially more just to be on the safe side than for any other reason, but over the last couple of days he'd started getting worse again.

Now I kept him on an IV because there wasn't any other way to ensure that he got enough calories in to keep him from starving to death.

Despite dozens of hours spent poring over every scrap of medical information I'd been able to find on anything that might be related to Ben's condition, I still didn't know enough to save him.

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