Fractured Awakening

SERAFINA

With all the medicine and the IVs and everything else.... I think they must have taken me under. Because when I opened my eyes again, it was the next day. Bright sunlight streamed through the thin hospital curtains, too clean, too real. I blinked against it, disoriented.

For a moment, when I woke up, I thought I was still in the car with Vance, his gun pressed against my head, the threat