Null and Void~A Royal States Novel by Susan Copperfield

Author:Susan Copperfield [Copperfield, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B077J8KS1S
Publisher: Pen & Page Publishing
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

I made the walk home aware I still had a few hours before I needed to take my next dose of medication, but I still wore a jacket and scarf home just in case. I hadn’t tested my luck, and I meant to keep my promise.

When in doubt, I’d play it safe with my allergies.

I enjoyed the walk, grateful no one had been waiting outside my office for me, and I relaxed as I climbed the steps to the front door. As always during the dead of night, Dallas quieted. I found the city serene, as though all the darkness in the world disappeared, leaving behind a sky filled with stars and a cool evening breeze.

Something flashed and clicked, and I yelped, whirling to face the source. My heel caught on the edge of the step, and my ankle gave out beneath me. I whipped out my arm to catch the railing, clipping my wrist on the metal bar.

Gravity took hold, and my shoulder smacked into the bottom step. The back of my head cracked into something, and the next thing I knew, someone was shining a bright light in my eyes.

“Don’t move, Miss Little,” Winston, one of the complex’s night security guards, ordered. Red and blue lights splashed over the sidewalk. “You took a nasty fall.”

Not moving worked for me. My ears rang, and jolting pain shot up my right leg. Once I added in the skull-splitting throb in my head, never moving again seemed fine to me. “Something flashed,” I slurred.

“Someone took your photograph from the bushes, and you slipped on the step. You hit your head when you fell. Until we know if you hurt your neck, don’t move unless told, okay?”

“I don’t suppose we can keep this a secret, can we?”

“Sure. It’ll be a secret between me, you, the entirety of the evening security team, and the paramedics, who just arrived. I’m sure the pair of cops coming up the walkway would be happy to keep it a secret until they have to file a report.”

I sighed. “I deserved that. How about we keep it a secret from my boss? I’m just going to blame my medications. The ones that let me go cold places. Those medications.”

“We’re aware of your medications. Elis is running up to your unit now to fetch your prescriptions to make certain there are no issues at the hospital.”

Considering how badly my ankle hurt, I wouldn’t be surprise if I’d broken it. Tears burned my eyes, and I clenched my teeth so I wouldn’t start snarling—or worse, screaming profanities so I wouldn’t cry.

A pair of paramedics descended, and whatever they saw when they flashed their lights in my eyes displeased them enough they trapped my neck in a brace and carted me to the hospital, where my least favorite person on Earth was manning the ER, Dr. Teslink.

He looked me over and planted his hands on his hips. “You’re not here asphyxiating?”

While my neck was trapped in a brace and strapped

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