Flame Kissed (Seeking the Dragon Book 1) by Alexis Radcliff

Author:Alexis Radcliff [Radcliff, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

Ella

I awoke to dimly-heard whispers, lying on my back in some kind of raised bed with bars on the sides, with a loose white sheet draped over me from the neck down. At first I thought I must be in a hospital, but the room didn’t look like any kind of hospital I’d ever been in before. It was all gray stone, cracked and pitted with age, and my bed seemed to be the only piece of furniture. A grimy tan curtain hung on a rusted rod over the only doorway. It took me a moment to realize why the room felt confining, and then I noticed that there weren’t any windows.

I tried to get up, but my wrists and ankles snapped against fabric. Padded restraints held them firmly.

I strained against them for a panicky moment, but I could tell it was hopeless; they were fastened tightly. I dropped my head back on the lumpy pillow, breathing hard, and tried to organize my thoughts. How had I gotten here? And why didn’t I remember it? A creeping thread of worry crawled up my spine. This place looked an awful lot like what I’d always imagined insane asylums looked like: the hospital bed, the restraints, the gloomy interior. Had I had some kind of psychotic break?

My memories leading up to this moment sure pointed in that direction. What the hell had happened? One moment I was fretting over my disastrous night with Nick and how stupid his girls-gone-wild college friends were, and the next I was fighting off some kind of spooky, magical creeper from carrying Katie into a silver tunnel that shouldn’t have been able to exist.

Stuff like that only happened in movies, didn’t it? It couldn’t possibly be real. But it had sure seemed real at the time. The chill in the room, the weird, cold smell of the slender man, and the solid thwack of steel on his palm as he caught the poker had all been way more vivid than any dream I’d ever had.

I was too confused and frightened to even try to make sense of it right now. First I just needed to figure out where I was. If I’d gone crazy, then my parents were probably getting me the best help they could, and I just needed to calm down and wait. It’s not like I had much choice anyway.

The air in the room was several degrees cooler than would be comfortable for anyone, and I shivered, noticing that I was still in my bikini under the sheet. Even worse, I realized that it was still damp. I swallowed and shivered again, only this time it had nothing to do with the temperature. How had I gotten here so fast? And why hadn’t they bothered to give me a proper hospital gown? Even mental patients got dry clothes…

“Mom? Dad?” I called out. My voice sounded small and frightened. The barely-audible whispers had been coming through the curtain in a steady stream this whole time, but they cut off now.

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