Polaris: Book Five of The Stardust Series by Autumn Reed & Julia Clarke

Author:Autumn Reed & Julia Clarke [Reed, Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-20T05:00:00+00:00

18

Spinning

Haley

My eyes blinked open, and I immediately closed them, the light somehow too much for me. Why did I feel like I’d been tackled by a grizzly bear?

“¿Estás bien?”

I blinked again and found a young woman hovering over me. Her brows were pinched together with concern, and her mouth was moving too fast for me to process what she was saying. Either that, or the whooshing sound in my ears was drowning out her words.

Sitting up, I instinctively reached for the back of my head and cried out when pain sliced through me. I slammed my eyes shut again as the room started to spin, taking deep breaths to overcome the dizziness and nausea. What the heck happened?

I tried to work backward and struggled to figure out the last thing I could remember. As always, my heart sank as I thought about my fight with the guys. I’d walked away from them at dinner, and Liam had snuck into my room and comforted me. Was that last night? No, two nights ago, I finally decided as memories of being in Chase’s arms flooded me. Today, I’d been at the training center and Kenneth assigned our final projects for his course. Flashes of walking around the abandoned building, and then . . . nothing.

When I opened my eyes again, the young woman sat on a twin mattress across from me and started chattering in Spanish. I couldn’t think fast enough in my disoriented state to translate, but I was able to pick out words that put me instantly on edge. Trapped. Prisoner. Bad men. None of those were encouraging.

My gaze wandered over my body, and I was relieved to find that I was still fully clothed in my Zenith uniform, though my boots were missing. The watch Kenneth gave me remained on my wrist, and it read seven minutes after five. That meant it had only been about an hour. Assuming days hadn’t passed while I’d been unconscious.

When I was feeling more in control, I inspected the room and tried not to freak out. I was in what appeared to be a small bedroom. The lone window was boarded up with two-by-fours, and the door was made of steel with no handle. A camera was mounted in the corner of the ceiling, and brown shag carpet hid stains I didn’t even want to think about. With the windows blocked, no sunlight filtered in and the only light in the room was from a plastic fixture with one bulb.

I had no idea where I was or what was going on, but I was in trouble. More trouble than ever before, and that was saying something.

Now that I was able to really look at the young woman across from me, I was struck by her beauty despite her baggy clothes, lack of makeup, and hair that looked like it hadn’t been brushed in days. She had dark, almost black hair and brown eyes a shade lighter that were framed by impossibly long lashes.

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