As the World Falls Down by Katy Nicholas

Author:Katy Nicholas [Nicholas, Katy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alice in wonderland; paranormal; apocalypse; starcrossed lovers; epidemic; aliens; england; london; sexy; destiny; dead; cult; weird; zombies
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

After…

When I finally managed to peel my eyelids apart, I blinked and flinched from the painful brightness suddenly piercing my pupils. Dusty beams of sunlight streamed into the room, where I lay immobile, and nauseated from the sensation of being on a carousel.

After a massive effort, I managed to roll over onto my side and dry retch, breathing deeply between heaves until the dizziness wore off and my surroundings became clearer.

The room was square and off-white, with areas where the paint peeled back to plaster. There were two windows covered with metal shuttering—the kind that concertinaed out of the way if you wanted to open the window, though a chunky iron padlock hung at the end where the catch was. I lay atop a single mattress that was covered with a creaseless yellow sheet. I’d been provided with a pillow too, freshly laundered and smelling of berries.

On another mattress on the opposite side of the room, was Claire, still out cold and snoring lightly with her face buried in her pillow. It was at least an hour before she finally stirred.

As I started retching again, she stretched and yawned. “Hey.”

She crawled over to me and put her hand on my back, giving my spine a gentle rub. A momentary wave of static prickled between us. She quickly withdrew her hand and frowned, flexing her fingers briefly before she took hold of my arm and helped me sit up. Her pale face was racked with concern as she pushed my hair back behind my shoulders and then sat cross-legged next to me.

“You all right?” she asked, staring at me out of chocolate brown eyes. They were ringed with red like mine and Nate’s. She was a survivor.

“No,” I snapped.

My thoughts went to Nate. I needed to be with him. The pull tugged at me, along with a feeling of homesickness fused with longing. Where was he?

“I have to find Nate,” I muttered.

“That the man you were with?” Claire asked. “He’s probably in one of the other cells—sorry, holding rooms. Not supposed to call them cells.”

Cells. Seemed like an accurate description to me, and I was willing to bet the door was locked so we couldn’t escape.

“Where are we?” I quizzed her, still too weak to get up and look out the window. Were we still in London? We had to be. They couldn’t have carried us very far on foot.

“This used to be a boarding school. These were classrooms,” she answered.

I glanced around again. In my haze, I hadn’t noticed the bottles of water placed at the foot end of our mattresses. I leaned forward and grabbed one, sucking down the water until there was less than an inch left in the bottom.

She watched me curiously. She didn’t seem to be as affected by the tranquilizer as I was. Maybe it wasn’t the first time she’d been darted? Hadn’t she begged them not to ‘put her to sleep?’

“There are dormitories in the west wing. I have a room there. You’ll get a room too,” she added.

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