Nell Thorn by Sophie Angmering

Author:Sophie Angmering [Angmering, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2012-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Nell awoke as a hand clamped down on her mouth and both arms were seized and borne above her head.

The world was an inky black, but seemed to be packed full of any number of bodies, all intent on pressing in on her, keeping her silent and stopping her from moving. She was grabbed by the back of her neck, thrown from the bed to the floor, then dragged, naked, backwards across the room by the unseen hands.

Nell’s feet were bare, still warm from where she had been sound asleep after her encounter with Rowe, but she still kicked out, up, down, to the side. Heel first, punch-kicks aiming to hurt her assailants and make them cry out when she could not. She hit a cloth-covered knee with a satisfying crack, then struck again to make contact with what felt like someone’s groin or stomach. The resulting curse was silenced by a barked command from somewhere near her head. Nell heightened her efforts to no avail. A bag was pulled over her head and shoulders, down as far as her buttocks. The rough warmth of the cabin floor gave way to the cool smoothness of the external corridor and she scuffed her heels as she was half dragged, half carried away, trying to gain any sort of purchase in order to start her fight back.

An injection pressed against her right thigh. There was a sharp sting as a cool fluid was injected under her skin and dispersed into her bloodstream. It had to be some type of tranquiliser.

A horrible thought occurred to her. She was being taken for the mindelve despite Rowe’s vows and promises to the contrary. And now time was of the essence because the bastards had drugged her.

The sudden terror that swept through her body gave her arms and legs an adrenaline rush of raw power. She threw herself into a frenzy of kicking and as the floor continued to slip past her flailing limbs she twisted first one way, then the other in an effort to get free. Nothing worked—all her efforts brought her was a lot of loud swearing from her abductors and a heavy-handed blow to one side of her jaw that made stars appear before her eyes even inside the stifling thickness of the bag over her head.

Then there was a shout.

Nell was dropped to the floor like a sack of stones, where she landed flat on her back, unable to breathe in the aftermath of the impact. The combination of the injection and being winded meant that she started to lose consciousness, a rushing in her ears replacing the loud noises of a serious skirmish, whilst she was still trying to draw breath. As she did so, she had the peculiar feeling she was falling backwards, although her brain registered she was on the floor.

“Nell?”

Someone was calling her name repeatedly, but she was unable to respond. The roaring in her ears finally claimed her before she had a chance to draw one precious breath.

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