The Harvested (The Permutation Archives Book 1) by Sowder Kindra

Author:Sowder, Kindra [Sowder, Kindra]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: CHBB Publishing
Published: 2016-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

I awoke with a start, and pain flooded through the whole left side of my head and temples, causing me to inhale sharply in a hiss. A massive migraine was under way, caused by the high dose of Paralisix it had taken to put me on the ground.

From what I could tell, my body kept adjusting to the doses of the drug and would possibly keep going until I overdosed or became completely immune to its effects. I was hoping for the latter. Clean white walls surrounded me. I looked around the large room, and noticed I was planted directly in the middle of it.

Someone had placed me in a chair made out of what I could best describe as memory foam, metal, and black fabric. Black straps secured my hands and feet to the chair, making it impossible to move. A strap across my waist practically held me down. The only part of my body not restrained was my head.

Someone had changed my clothes, and dressed me in a red shirt and black pants with black shoes to match. I looked like a walking target. Apparently, they knew what I was capable of, and they wanted me easily spotted. I was sure that everyone was still wearing white—except the man who had tried to escape and I had tried to kill.

I was severely uncomfortable in the chair with my wrists and ankles rubbed raw from the restraints. There was no IV, no bags of fluid, and no medications. All medical equipment was as far away from me as it could be without leaving the room altogether, and I was alone. The room was almost entirely bare, and fluorescent lights glared off the tiled floor. There wasn’t even a single soldier with a gun in the room. That was a small relief since I was strapped to a chair in a room that I had never seen before, and I was in massive amounts of trouble. I had tried to escape and I hadn’t seen much before I was being dragged back inside, but I had seen enough.

I tried to turn my wrists, but they rubbed against the metal painfully. I could barely move. I wouldn’t be going anywhere unless they wanted me to, and I had a strange feeling I wouldn’t be going far.

I heard a door open and close behind me, followed by the sound of shoes ranging from loafers, to high heels, to tennis shoes, to boots. My heart hammered, and butterflies took up residence in my gut. I didn’t try to turn my head. I knew I wouldn’t be able to see anything without their permission. I hated being blind to the things happening around me.

I wanted to move, and I wanted to be able to see who had just walked into the room, but I couldn’t, and that caused even more panic. Forcing my breathing to slow down, I inhaled deeply to calm myself. I couldn’t let them know how scared I truly was.

I was hard, cold, unmovable, and dangerous as far as they were concerned considering the restraints.

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