Chapter 61

ASHLEY

{Thursday, 6 days after the blood moon}

I was woken by the unsettling sound of someone wheezing beside me, and I noticed something which felt like a pipe in my throat as I opened my eyes.

Peter removed the Venturi mask on my face and carefully pulled out a tube from my mouth as he struggled to stop himself from wheezing.

I coughed and gasped for air as I tried to stand up, and Peter rubbed my back to ease the cough.

Apart from the sound of both of us coughing, three beeping monitors were in the room.

Some of the monitors were connected to my arm with wires I just pulled out, and there were wires on Peters's bed. He must've removed them from his arm before I woke up.

“Are you okay?” Peter asked, still wheezing. “Breathe,” he said. “Just breathe.”

“What's going on?” I asked, darting around the room. We must've been unconscious for a while, seeing as I could barely remember a thing.

“We need to get out of here,” he said. “This is about the time they come to sedate us. We nee