Audacity 4

Discomfort settled heavily over Vanessa as consciousness crept back, slow and reluctant. It wasn't the sterile, antiseptic kind – the kind that stole your breath and told you something was terribly wrong.

This was a deeper, more suffocating kind of unease, a feeling of being utterly out of place.

Her eyelids fluttered open, revealing an unfamiliar room. White walls, yes, but not the stark, institu