Chapter 29

**Sloane**

I wake to the sound of silence, not the comforting kind either. My body is heavy, no, anchored, like gravity has me by the ribs, and my shoulder pulses with heat and pressure while every muscle in my back screams like I’ve been thrown from a building. Oh. Right. Now I remember. I peel my eyes open slowly. The light hurts. Everything hurts. The ceiling above me is cream-coloured with a f