Chapter Seventeen

Gosh, my body hurt! I was so out of it I had no clue what was going on. Telling the truth, I didn’t even know if I was alive, dead, or dreaming. The awareness of warmth, closure, and protection made me feel so good, and I didn’t know where I was, but I felt at peace for once in my life, and I didn’t want to wake up. I didn’t want reality to fall upon me.

The heaviness of arms and being held by someone struck me. I fluttered my eyes open to find myself entangled with a bear. I mean, a man, but still a bear, in a very dimmed lit ambiance with shadows playing on the walls, coming from an almost gone fire.

I forgot all about my pain and my training skills kicked in when I saw I had already thrown him out of bed with all my might. Now, he was there on the floor looking at me all bewildered and sleepy, and I felt freezing, and emptiness crawled uninvited into my body, clawing for my soul. What the heck?

“Who the hell are you? What did you do to me? Where am I?” So many questions without an