Mary

My head is pounding, it feels like someone is banging against my skull continuously with a hammer. All I can hear is “*thump, *thump, *thump*” the sound of my brain pounding. I am terrified to open my eyes with how swollen they feel. What the hell happened to me, why was I feeling this way?

The last thing I can remember is reliving Nikolai’s past with Draq, Dru, and Nevaeh. Had my trip to the past really taken such a toll on my body? I knew I needed to get up and talk to Nikolai. I needed to tell him that I would be alright during today’s summit, and that he had nothing to worried about. As long as I was by his side. I would be safe.

It took every ounce of willpower I had left to open my eyes. Once I was finally able to open them I took in my surroundings, where I was it was pitch black. I could tell that I was in a room of some sort, as I was lying in a bed. The bed I was lying in was lumpy and was nothing like the mattress I shared with Nikolai. The blankets that were covering my