Where Angels Fear by D K Hood

Author:D K Hood [Hood, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786815446
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-02-20T18:30:00+00:00

Thirty-Four

The next time Doug opened his eyes and stared at the stark white ceiling, he realized with a jolt his situation was not a terrible dream. He swiped his tongue over dry, cracked lips and wiggled his toes. Although the burning sensation of a red-hot poker stabbed into his side, the heavy feeling in his limbs had eased. He lifted his arms, pushing the covers to one side, and attempted to rise. Agony seared through him on the right side as if a spear had gone through his body and was still sticking out his back. He looked down his bare chest and gingerly ran his fingers over the thick wad of dressing. What happened to me?

In a rush, his mind filled with the image of the hopeless expression of the young woman in the next bed. The doctor must have given her the same stupefying drug as they had given him. He would never forget how terrified Jim had made her. He punched the mattress in a fit of anger. No wonder her face was familiar! She was the one in the wreck. He had cradled her head in his lap in the back of Jim’s pickup. Jim had called the girl “Olivia” yet hadn’t mentioned knowing her at the time.

With care, he rolled to one side and tried to sit on the side of the bed. Agony flamed through him but he managed to drop both legs over the edge. He tugged out the catheter attached to him with disgust. The drip in his arm no doubt carried pain meds. Whatever drugs they had used on him before had gone way past pain relief; they’d turned him into a zombie.

The room moved in and out of focus and threatened to fold in at the edges. Long moments of nausea followed and he gripped the edge of the bed like a life preserver until the ebb and flow of his balance subsided. He wanted to speak to Olivia, then glanced down at his nakedness. The last thing she needed was to see a naked man approaching her bed. Gritting his teeth against the pain, he tugged at the blanket and fashioned a toga, then eased his feet onto the cold floor. Sweat covered his skin and dripped down his nose with the effort of taking one single step. The pain in his side seemed to crush his lungs, preventing an intake of breath.

He reached for the curtains around his bed and they opened with a swish of metal runners. The girl was staring at him and he placed one finger over his mouth to signal her to be quiet. He scanned the room, searching for any CCTV cameras, then dropped his voice to just above a whisper. It came out husky from his dry throat. “I’m sorry I couldn’t help you. They had me on some strange drug, I couldn’t move.”

“I know. They pump that shit into us all the time.” She blinked at him. “I couldn’t do anything to stop him either.

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