The Secrets of Time and Fate by Rebecca Alexander

Author:Rebecca Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Chapter 27

Present day, Manchester

Sadie was losing ground, Felix could see it. She was slipping away like an injured bird, despite every effort to shore up her deteriorating condition. Bloodstained tears oozed from her eyes, and even Maggie’s remedies and the circles didn’t seem to help any more. Purple blemishes mottled every visible area of skin. Drip sites were stained with scarlet bandages. But she still didn’t die. George lifted her ivory wrist in his brown hand as if he needed to feel her pulse for himself.

‘She’s dying,’ he said to Felix. ‘We would try dialysis again, but it’s risky. She’s not clotting properly.’

Angela had already donated platelets but they had hardly made a dent in Sadie’s test results.

Maggie, who was sat beside the girl and had barely left her bed, scowled at the two men. ‘You know what we have to do. Blood saved Jack.’

‘At what cost?’ Felix snapped back, equally tired. There was no way he could expose Sadie to the possession that Jack had suffered when she drank blood.

George looked from one to the other. ‘We have the Respiridol here. Bachmeier is sending one of his technicians to record her vitals and a doctor will supervise the actual protocol.’

‘How can they do that? Sadie has no identity with the authorities, and what explanation would you give for her condition?’ Felix touched Sadie’s cold, grey hand. It felt as if she was already dead.

‘She is going to be recorded as an anonymous patient. It’s the best we can do, we have to do everything we can to save her life.’ George shook his head. ‘Look, I know you, Felix. What you have done to get her this far – I don’t even know what you’ve done but that kid has a day, tops. She could bleed out at any moment. I don’t know why she’s still alive.’

Felix shook his head. ‘You don’t, you can’t understand. Sadie was declared dead last year, but as you see, she isn’t – quite – dead. She’s survived because of Maggie’s knowledge.’

‘You really believe that a few scribbles and some herbs have been keeping her alive? Felix, come on.’

‘George, I’m sorry, but if you knew.’ He stared at Sadie’s body under the flat, unwrinkled sheet. He laid her thin fingers back on the bed. ‘They are . . . this company has some really dangerous origins.’

‘I read they were funded by Nazi money,’ George said.

‘Even worse.’ Felix sighed as he stared down at the teenager. ‘Start the Respiridol. I’ll deal with Bachmeier and Holtz.’

Felix was walking in the grounds outside Sadie’s room when Jack phoned.

‘Felix, we have a problem.’

‘We have one here, too. Sadie’s fading fast.’ Felix sat on a bench in the car park, and rubbed his hand over his forehead. It was incongruous, surrounded by climbing roses on the wall behind him, flowers in a bed under the window, vibrant with bees and butterflies going about their business as if Sadie’s life wasn’t draining away. ‘Now George has decided to use a trial drug from Bachmeier and Holtz.

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