The Wrong Track by Jamie Bennett EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Jamie Bennett
- Language: English
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- Status: Available for Download
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- Price: Free
- File Size: 1 MB
I’m surrounded by turquoise water, clear and warm with colorful fish
swimming lazily around my legs. Fan coral undulates in the gentle currents;
a single, white cloud drifts slowly through the azure sky above me. I breathe
in and out, filling my healthy lungs with clean air, filling my body with
languid pleasure.
“Mrs. Rovina?”
I feel the sand beneath my toes and then I pick up my feet and float,
buoyed by the salt and the waves. The ocean cradles me and I drift, content.
Nothing is more perfect than this moment.
“Excuse me. Excuse me?”
But then, suddenly, I realize that there’s something here with me. There’s
something on the beach—no, maybe it’s in the water—there’s something just
beyond my field of vision—
“Mrs. Rovina? Remy?”
The sun is so warm on my face. I close my eyes against its brightness but
I can still feel the heat. It’s all wonderful, yes, but by now I’m sure that
something is close. It’s here lurking in the depths, concealed behind the
coral, buried in the sand. There’s something, something dangerous, and if I
don’t watch out—
A hand gently shook my arm and I opened my eyes, gasping. The
woman who’d apparently been bending over me stood up straight and
smiled. “You’re awake!” she announced. I turned my head and saw the
other women in the room watching us. A fluorescent light in the ceiling
blinked and wavered and I blinked, too. It had been right there, so close.
Something—
“Don’t be embarrassed,” the nurse said. “People fall asleep in here all the
time. We keep it too hot, I think, but your condition will wear you out
wherever you are.”
I rubbed my eyes, very tired. “I wasn’t asleep,” I announced, but maybe I
had been. The dry heat blowing on my face definitely hadn’t been the sun or
a tropical breeze like I’d been imagining. I was sitting under a vent that
cranked away because the world outside of the single, brown-tinted window
was frozen. Everything here was icy and cold and dark in a winter prison,
nothing like the turquoise water, the colorful fish…
“Mrs. Rovina?” Now the woman frowned a little. “Are you all right?”
“I’m fine. That’s not my name so I didn’t respond.” And I may have
been asleep, and I definitely didn’t want to be here.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” She looked at my chart with her eyebrows drawn down,
studying the information there, and then said, “We should correct this for
you.” But I ignored that, because I was busy lumbering to my feet. I felt like
a big, overfed bear ready for hibernation, except weren’t they already asleep?
They were curled up in their warm caves, dozing away through the horrible
winter. Cozy, alone but content. No one would come after a bear, asleep or
not.
“Mrs….Remy? Are you ready to come back?”
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