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skin is exposed. Bile rises up in my gut, burning my throat.
    “I don’t want jewels.” The man says in a low, venomous tone.
“You’re worth more than all the diamonds in the world.”
    I gag and he leans down, opening his mouth above the top of
one of my breasts. A scream like nothing I’ve ever heard leaves my throat just
as the man is jerked back violently.
    My vision is blurry. I think I may have blacked out for a
moment but I can hear an eerie kind of silence. No. The silence is a backdrop
to the most sickening thuds and grunts I have ever been forced to listen to.
    Bones break and shatter. Muscles pop. Lungs deflate.
    By the time the beating—for that’s all that it could be—is
done, no one is speaking. I fear for a moment that no one is breathing .
It’s as if I am standing in the center of a football stadium where everyone is
suddenly holding their breath.
    A dark, deep voice penetrates the darkness. A beautiful
accent washes over me, even as it barks a brutal command. “Get her to a
hospital. Now!”
    The lights go out behind my eyes and I know nothing else.

Chapter Eight
     
    Beep. Beep. Beep.
    I try to reach over and shut off what I can only assume is
my alarm clock but something catches on my arm. I pry my eyelids open and
immediately regret the motion. Blinding light burns my retinas and I
immediately close my eyes again.
    “Now, now.” Johnni’s voice coaxes me away from the dark
abyss of sleep that I was headed for. “We can’t have any more of that. You’ve
been out of it for almost two days.”
    I open my eyes slowly and realize I’m in a hospital bed.
Oddly, my brain decides to process the fact that the sheets are a soft pink
instead of the cold white I had always expected they would be. Just another
thing that Hollywood gets wrong.
    I try to sit up, but Johnni has to help me before I can make
it to the position. I take a deep breath that smells heavily of the flowers
decorating the room.
    “What happened?”
    Johnni sits back in the chair next to my hospital bed.
Judging from the food trays and blankets surrounding him, he’s been in that
chair for a while. “Before we get into that, how about we get you some food? I
bet you’re starving.”
    I start to shake my head but my stomach rumbles loud enough
for both of us to hear it. Johnni laughs and I shrug helplessly. “I guess so.”
    The nurse comes in moments after she’s summoned and checks
all my vitals. “You’re doing great, Ms. Opal. I’m sure you’ll be up and out of
here as soon as possible.” She flashes me a great, friendly smile as she leaves
to dig me up some food.
    “How are you feeling?” Johnni says the moment she’s gone.
    I rub my hands across my eyes, trying to get a good
assessment of that exact information. “I don’t know. I feel a little fuzzy…” I
wince. The motion pulls at my shoulder and when I look down I realize that my
hospital gown is covering a thick gauze bandage.
    “Do you remember what happened?” Johnni’s voice is so soft I
can barely hear it.
    “Yeah. Some asshole attacked me. He bit me.”
    Johnni’s hands clench into fists. “Yeah, he did. He would
have done worse too.”
    I shiver, knowing that he’s right. “So, what happened? Why
didn’t he?”
    “I’ll explain everything after you’ve had something to eat.
I don’t want to overtax you already.”
    “Don’t worry about me. What I really want right now is to
know what happened.”
    Johnni sighs and runs his hands through his hair. Luckily
for him, the nurse comes back just then with a tray of food.
    “Now, don’t push yourself. If you can’t finish all of it,
that’s fine. You just do what you can,” she says warmly. She sets the tray down
in front of me and I immediately know that it’s not standard hospital food.
There’s a nice circular cut of filet mignon, grilled asparagus, a slice of
strawberry cheesecake, and a baked potato with all of the fixin’s.
    I must have looked as surprised as I felt because