Stay With Me (Stay With Me Series Book 1) by Nicole Fiorina

Author:Nicole Fiorina [Fiorina, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-02T18:30:00+00:00

My conscious woke before anything else. I reached for my dry throat, but I was unable to move my hands. When I opened my eyes, Dr. Conway stood over me, reading from a paper in her hand. A blanket of relief washed over me at the sight of her.

“Oh good, you’re awake,” she said with a grin. “I was worried they gave you too much.”

“How long?” I asked. My throat felt like it had been sliced open with a knife.

Dr. Conway sat beside me, and I scanned the unfamiliar room.

“You were in psych ward for six days,” she said, and I closed my eyes at the time that had passed—six days without Ollie. “Your system is running on fumes. You can’t keep starving yourself. We had to constrain you and bring you to the hospital to get you on fluids.”

The hospital? “I-I can’t go back there,” I said, shaking my head. “Please, I’ll be good, just bring me back to the main campus. I’ll behave,” I begged.

“I’m sorry, Mia. It doesn’t work like that.” She patted my leg. “But, I am curious … your writing assignment, it was brought to me along with your books and paperwork. Have you read it?”

My writing assignment? She was bringing up my writing assignment now? As much as I wanted to go off on her, I shook my head. She’s on my side, I had to remind myself.

“You remember everything, Mia, or at least your subconscious does. Whatever the trigger has been for you, I need you to latch on to it. Hold on to that feeling and dive as deep as you can go. Once discharged, I’ll meet with you back at the psych ward to see how you’re doing.”

“You’re leaving?” I asked desperately. My cuffs clashed against the railing as I tried to reach out to her. “Please, you can’t go …” She was my comfort when Ollie couldn’t be. My throat burned, my head felt heavy, and all I wanted was for her to stay.

But she stood and ran her palm up my forehead and through my hair before turning to leave. The way she laid her warm hand over my forehead brought flashes of Ollie forward, and how I used to find comfort in that single touch, but it now only haunted me.

My mother used to do that, too, but it was before …

Before.

I grasped on to that single word as the door to my hospital room creaked open and Dr. Conway exited.

That sound.

No …

I shook my head rapidly, attempting to push it back down.

But I had been depleted of all strength. Memories of my past cascaded as a dam finally busted open. The pressure of the water was too much for my barriers to handle, and they collapsed around me.

I remembered everything. Every sickening thing. The beeping on the monitor beside me rang in my ears. My eyes darted around as I searched for air. Nothing could escape my mouth as I tried calling out for Dr. Conway. She continued to walk down the hall behind the glass dividing us.

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