Chapter 10

• I fall from my bed as I violently fight against the blankets that I have wrapped around me. My ass hitting the floor jars my back sending waves of sharp pain through my back and legs, knocking the breath out of me in the process. I immediately start into dry heaves as my body starts trying to rid itself of what little I managed to eat yesterday. I scramble on all fours, never making it to my feet, as I push myself to the bathroom, heaving dinner into the toilet. As I sit back against the tub, I realize that not only am I in a serious panic attack but I’m starting into a bad asthma attack as well. I’m gasping for breath as my panic consumes me. It takes everything I have to keep myself sitting up but I know it’s not going to last as black spots litter my vision. I manage to check my watch and register in my mind that it’s midnight.
• ‘Great, still seven hours before someone finds me.’ I think to myself as I collapse.
• I wake gasping for breath two more times before I can get enough air into my lungs to move my body off the floor and into my bed. I stack the pillows against the wall so that I’m elevated as I wrap a blanket around my shoulders. I’m shivering hard from both fear and cold and for once I find myself longing for the patient kindness of the alpha I just met.