A Phantom Enchantment by Eve Marie Mont

Author:Eve Marie Mont [Mont, Eve Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2014-08-28T12:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Five of us in total were rushed to the emergency room. Although from the look of things, the entire student body of Saint-Antoine was at the hospital, wanting to get in on the gossip and spectacle. My wounds were superficial—lacerations on my face and arms, mostly from glass shards on the floor. Flynn’s were about the same as mine. Another couple had received severe contusions from falling branches.

But Owen had borne the brunt of the fall. The tree had pinned him to the ground, and Monsieur Crespeau had been forced to cut branches away with a chainsaw so the medics could pull out Owen’s body. They’d rushed him to the hospital since he was losing so much blood, and although his condition sounded grim, a nurse came to my room to tell me his injuries were not life threatening.

When all was said and done, Owen had suffered a fractured rib, a broken nose, and multiple cuts and lacerations. Somehow, Elise had made it through the ordeal unscathed.

When I was finally given the green light to leave my bed, I asked the nurse if I could visit Owen and found him laid up in his bed with Flynn and Nurse Elise at his side. He looked so vulnerable lying there in his hospital gown, connected to IVs and an oxygen mask.

“He’s heavily sedated,” Elise told me, placing a proprietary hand on his arm. “But he’s going to be okay.”

“Thank God,” I said.

“How are you doing?” Flynn asked.

“I’m okay. They want to keep me overnight for observation, but mostly I’m just scary-looking.”

Flynn smirked. “You can say that again. That’s gonna leave a scar,” he said, tracing one of the cuts on my face.

“You’re no beauty yourself,” I said.

“Chicks dig scars,” he said. Damned if that wasn’t true.

“How long do you think they’ll keep him here?” I asked Elise. I don’t know why I was deferring to her, but she did have a pretty convincing Florence Nightingale routine going.

“A few days, probably,” she said. “The doctor said something about blunt trauma.”

“That doesn’t sound good,” I said. “I can’t believe the tree fell on him. How do you think that happened?”

“Just a freak accident, I guess,” Flynn said.

But I wasn’t so sure. I thought about the ghostly image of Gray I’d seen at the top of the stairwell. Probably just a hallucination brought on by my terror. Still, I’d been having these feelings for weeks now, some sixth sense that someone was following me, watching me, and that this presence bore me ill will.

We stayed in the room for about an hour until the nurse told us we had to leave. Somehow Elise convinced her that she was Owen’s girlfriend and was allowed to stay. But Flynn and I went back to our respective hospital rooms. I barely slept at all. Finally, I drifted off sometime around four A.M. but was awoken just a few hours later by a stream of hospital attendants coming in and out of my room. All I wanted

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