Lilith by Ashley Jeffery Read Free Book Online Page B

keep my eyes open, but the warmth was pulling me down into the welcoming waters. My eyes fluttered sh ut and everything went black.
    When I woke up I was laying on a gurney being rushed down the hall of what I assumed was a hospital. The bright lights hurt my eyes so much I had to keep shutting th em to keep out the burning pain. Dean was running along beside me. His shirt was still gone, I smiled when I opened my eyes and saw him.
    "Dean, you're hot." I whispered.
    The nurse snickered. "Nice to see you're awake Miss O’Brien. Do you know where you are? Don't try to speak just blink"
    I looked up into her soft face. She had jet-black hair and soft green eyes. I'd never seen her before, but I'd never been in the ER either. I tried to move my arm but it felt strangely numb. It moved but fell down beside me in a thud.
    "You're going to feel a little out of it, we gave you something for the pai n."
    I looked down at my arm and saw the intrusive IV sticking out of it. It itched terribly. I reached over to try to scr atch and she stopped my hand.
    "Don't that's the only reason you're no longer out. We're pumping fluids into you. You're lucky you did n't lose more blood."
    I was pushed through an open doorway into a brightly lit up room. Dean was stopped w hen he tried to follow me in.
    "Stand here Dean. We need to check her injuries." The nurse that had been speaking to me came forward again, she held my hand and squeezed gently.
    "You're going to be fine."
    People were all around me moving and using terms I'd never heard of. I felt a tug on my neck and closed my eyes, the warmth was everywhere surrounding me. It was like a warm bath, pulling me into its soothing waters. I felt myself slipping deeper and deeper inside it. Until I no longer heard the voices around me.
    My eyes flashed open and I saw the bright lights above me again.
    "She's back. Get me more sutures and flush the wound. There, you see it a small jugular hematoma. We must have unclogged it during initial examination. I think we've got it. Get me another bag of O neg and some platelets."
    I could feel something pulling on my neck but it wasn't painful, just strange. My whole body felt numb, like I couldn't qu ite wake up and make it move. I closed my eyes against the bright lights, and someone pulled on my lids. I wanted them to stop it didn't feel right, intrusive.
    I tried to speak but couldn't. The sounds faded away again but the warmth, the nice inviting warm water never returned. It was too bad it didn't it felt so good, so calming. And everything went black again, I was falling deeply into th e pools of black and nothing.
    When I woke up again the bright lights were gone. Something wasn't right I tried to speak b ut something was lodged in my throat. It felt horrible. I tried to touch my neck but someone had my hand.
    " Connor, Connor she's awake go get a nurse...hurry." My mom's voice was wrong, like she'd been crying.
    I felt someone else touch my left hand and tried to look over by my neck felt so heavy and stiff. Dean leaned closer so I could see him; he had on a blue scrub shirt. Guess the nurses didn't want him distracting patients or female Doctors. When he'd been shirtless, I couldn't take my eyes off of his yummy stomach. It hurt when I tried to giggle. Dammit, what was wrong with me.
    M y dad must have come running into the room because I heard him yelling.
    "See, see she's awake take that hor rible thing out of her dammit."
    I rolled my eyes, even now, I knew he was being a butt head. You don't speak to Doctors like that. A nice looking middle-aged man came forward and looked into my face. He had soft brown eyes, and a stark white lab coat.
    "Pacey, can you hear me, no don't try to talk." I watched him shine a small fla shlight into both of my eyes.
    "If you haven't guessed yet, you're in the hospital. The reason you can't speak is because you had to be incubated. But I can re move that now if you're ready. No don’t try to move blink once for yes