Chapter 259: Run, Hazel

***One Week Later***

The beep of the monitor no longer bothered me. It no longer scared me. No longer pulled me out of half-sleep. No longer made my heart jolt with fear the way it had the first few days.

I had gotten used to it. Totally.

The steady rhythm of it had become background noise now, like the ticking of a clock in a room you’d been trapped in for too long.

It had been a week. One full