CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

The darkness is a nice reprieve and I find myself floating in it.

Is this what death is like?

My mind feels blank, my worries having faded.

But as I float there, I feel something tugging at me.

Discomfort hits me first, followed by the sensation of something winding around me. I begin struggling but when I open my eyes, it looks like a glowing strand of rope. It entwines around me and begins pulling me in a certain direction.

I begin to struggle, alarmed but I can’t seem to put up much of a fight.

The golden rope is warm and comforting but I don’t want it. I want to stay here.

However, it’s a losing battle.

I jerk awake, my eyes wide, gasping for breath. My whole body is drenched with sweat.

I barely have time to process what has happened before Adam’s face is in front of mine, his expression a mixture of agony and fury.

“Oh, thank heavens! You’re awake!”

His words make me realise that he revived me and the anger that fills me is so much that it bursts out of me, “What the h