Voice by Nikita Spoke

Author:Nikita Spoke [Spoke, Nikita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-27T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:

Cleared

Jemma woke in the bed in the senator’s house. She could vaguely recall Jack helping her to the car and then into bed, and she had flashes of oppressive dreams, memories of Josh’s face, of panic.

But she hadn’t woken up from those dreams still afraid. Progress.

She moved to stretch and bit back a groan; her arm hurt more than it had when Josh had first put the tracker in. A lot more. She tried to look at it, but the light outside was still dim. When she twisted to see the clock on the other side of Jack, she felt him stir.

“Jemma. I slept longer than I meant to,” he mumbled. “You need to eat something with your pain meds.” He sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed before stumbling out of the room. Jemma blinked after him, carefully removed the covers with her good arm, and followed him to the kitchen. When Jack saw she was up, he turned on the lights and coffee maker. “We can leave once we’re awake. Or once I am, anyway. That medication does a number on you. Do you remember anything after the surgery?”

She shook her head. “Not really. They let us go, I can see.” She walked to the center island and picked up the prescription bottle resting there, her name printed on it, along with directions to take the pills every six hours for ten days. “And they let us leave with this strong of a drug without ID.”

“They let us leave without the armed protection, too.” Jack put four pieces of bread in the toaster. “That wasn’t as hard as I was expecting. Apparently, they weren’t actually sure whether they were supposed to stay with us after we left the hospital. They’re local cops, work for the city or county, I forget. Either way, when they heard we were headed out of state, they let us leave alone. Said we should be safe, now, anyway, and that almost everybody’s been caught.”

She knew she should’ve felt safer with protection, but she agreed with Jack’s call; it seemed like a better idea to have left the hospital without a couple of policemen in tow.

“Anything else?” Jemma looked down at the neat incision on her arm. It was only about an inch long, not nearly as long as the bruising had been, though the area looked like it was developing new bruises on top of the old ones.

“Yeah. They gave me some bandages for you to keep on that, but I guess the first dose they gave you was the strongest since they injected some, too, and you kept peeling off anything they put on over the cut. Other than that, though, just take it easy on your arm and your eyes and everything should heal.”

She got comfortable as he brought her toast and milk. She declined coffee, intending to fall back to sleep on the drive home.

“I messaged Myles when we got back, let him know what was going on.

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