Nerves of Steel by Lyons CJ

Author:Lyons, CJ [Lyons, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: suspense
Publisher: Legacy Books
Published: 2009-11-11T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 64

Cassie couldn't open her eyes or her mouth. She tried to move her hands, but they were numb. It was as if her entire body belonged to someone else--someone very far away from her.

She was in a foreign place, a place where sounds transformed themselves into a cacophony of brilliant colors, where sight was meaningless and she couldn't touch anything. Did she even exist? Or was she dead?

A loud noise that was a bright starburst of scarlet flame startled her. It came again, more intense. She struggled to understand. She began to feel parts of her body once more, to claim them as her own. She immediately regretted this as powerful waves of nausea racked her body, and acid burned her throat when she tried to vomit.

Then she felt cold steel pressed against her throat, and in that instant, her body and mind were rejoined.

"Stop it!" the voice commanded. She knew that voice, didn't she? "If you puke on me, I swear I'll kill you here and now!"

She fought to regain control of her mutinous body, to breathe, to force blood through her heart--it was hard work, these mundane processes of living. As she concentrated, her body stopped its jerking, and the wave of nausea receded.

"That's better." The voice was so close to her that it boomed and echoed through her mind like a thunderstorm, leaving in its wake the worse headache of her life.

"Don't move." Suddenly there were foreign fingers on her face, and a searing pain that forced a gasp out of her as something was torn from her mouth, taking a layer of skin with it. Then a second, more painful tearing of her flesh, but now her eyes could open.

She saw nothing but darkness and red flashes that kept time with the pounding of her headache. Where was she? The darkness was complete, she could not tell if she was sitting or standing.

The disorientation caused a vertigo so extreme she could no longer control her nausea. Rough fingers grabbed her hair, jerked her head to the side as she vomited. She emptied her stomach with fierce contractions that took her breath away.

She realized then that she was lying on the ground, not outside though, it was too smooth. A cellar floor? She tried to concentrate on these tiny details, they seemed important, and they helped to distract her from the agonizing cramps that assaulted her body.

Then it was done. Her body went slack; she barely had enough energy to breathe. The foul smelling emesis slid across the floor, soaked into her clothes and hair.

The hand pulled her upright, back against a smooth cold metal object that supported her. The knife returned to her throat.

"You need to do exactly as I tell you. Do you understand?" came the voice, softer now but more terrifying.

"Yes," she finally managed a hoarse whisper. Her hands were jerked up in front of her, and the knife sliced through her restraints.

"Do you know what will happen if you don't do as I say?"

The knife edge forced her head backward until she could barely breathe.

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