Free Web NovelChapter 134: Chapter 134 Her attempt to escape
_Rowena’s POV_
I woke up to extreme brightness.
A bright white ceiling that looked like that of a hospital’s. The smell that follows was antiseptic and clean and completely unlike the room I had last been conscious in.
I lay still for a moment and took inventory before I moved a bit.
I felt my head, there was a bandage on the left side of it, above the temple, it was extremely tight. The pain underneath it was deep and present and not going anywhere but it was stable pain, the kind that had been treated rather than the kind still arriving.
My body was wrapped with rib tape. My arms had IV lines in both. I knew there were marks on me. The marks I suspected on my stomach were covered by a hospital gown but I could feel them when I breathed, a constellation of deep bruising that mapped the last session at that gym with an unpleasant accuracy.
I moved my fingers and saw they were all present.
I moved my toes, same thing.
I turned my head slowly and looked at the room, it was a private single bed room with medical equipment. It had one small door. One window, actual size, not the high tiny versions from before, overlooking what appeared to be an interior courtyard. No guards visible inside the room. That didn’t mean no guards outside the door.
“Kyra,” I called out softly, feeling slightly scared.
Only silence greeted me.
Not the thin distant silence of the past several days when she had been suppressed and struggling. This was a different type of silence. A much deeper one. Absent in a way that was immediately terrifying.
“Kyra.”
Nothing.
I lay there and felt the absence of her and it was the worst thing that had happened to me in all of it. In my entire life. It was worse than the gym. Worse than the room itsslf. Worse than the chemical pain that I had gone through, the one that almost shattered my bones.
Kyra had been with me for a long time, a presence so constant that I had stopped consciously registering her the way you stopped registering your own heartbeat.
The absence was big for me to handle.
I breathed through it.
I did not know if she was dead.
I did not know what the compound they had been injecting me with did to wolf bonds at sustained exposure. I did not know if this was permanent or temporary or something in between.
If they’d killed her, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to survive it.
The only thing I knew was that I was in a hospital room with IV lines in both arms and a head wound plus visible marks on my body and no wolf, no mindlink, no damn way to reach anyone outside this room.
And spirit be damned that I was just going to stay here like a puppet.
With my mind not very made up, I pulled the IV from my left arm first. It bled more than I wanted it to and I pressed the hospital gown against it for thirty seconds and moved to the right arm and repeated the process. Both arms are bleeding slowly, but it was manageable. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
I sat up straight.
The room moved sideways and I gripped the bed rail and waited for it to stop moving and when it did I assessed what I had. The hospital gown with no shoes or phone. The IV stand too, metal, wheeled, and approximately five feet tall.
The window overlooked a courtyard.
I went to the window and looked down. It was floors with a concrete below, then a narrow garden strip, and a wall. Two floors was survivable in reasonable circumstances, right?
But my current circumstances were not reasonable.
Two floors onto concrete with cracked ribs, stomach pains and a head wound and especially no wolf reflexes to land with was a calculation that did not produce a good outcome.
I might die on the spot the moment I touched down.
So no, I couldn’t risk it like that.
I can’t die in the same city where my father and brothers lost their lives.
So door it was.
I picked up the IV stand, move to the door and pressed myself against the wall beside it and listened.
One set of footsteps outside, a regular movement, probably a guard doing a slow circuit rather than standing static. I timed the circuit. Approximately ninety seconds between passes.
I waited for the pass to complete, then I opened the door.
The corridor was empty in that section. I went left because the left was away from the direction the footsteps had gone. Bare feet on the clean hospital floor. I moved quickly and quietly and kept to the wall.
I found a stairwell door and hurriedly went through it.
One floor down, then the ground floor. Then a door that opened onto a service corridor that smelled of laundry and cleaning products.
I followed it.
Another door at the end.
I pushed through it into a narrow side alley between the hospital building and a neighboring wall. Cold air hit me, accompanied by daylight, the late afternoon by the light quality.
I stood in the alley and breathed.
I was finally free. I actually made it out?!
What a weak security Virella had. I needed to teach her a few things.
Okay, I was actually wrong. The freedom lasted for only 40 seconds.
Suddenly, the door behind me opened and two men came through it. In no time, they were between me and the alley entrance before I had fully processed that the alarm had been faster than I had calculated.
I still had the IV stand so I decided to fight my way out. Without Kyra it was useless anyways.
I swung the IV stand.
It connected, the first man went sideways. The second one was already reaching for me and he was bigger than the stand and I was running on just adrenaline that was wearing off, and my stomach made the second swing cost more than I had available. He took this chance and got hold of my arm. freewebnoveℓ.com
They bundled me and brought me back without a word to me.
I didn’t try to fight again on our way back.
I was saving what was left for the next attempt because there would definitely be a next attempt.
