Chapter 2

Too Bright

the room was too bright when I woke up and I had a splitting headache.

My eyes felt very heavy when I tried to open them and I was met with the smell of antiseptics and medicine it just smell too clean.

“Where am I”

I asked myself looking around and trying to shield my eyes from the brightness but even my arm felt heavy and every breath I took was hard. I blinked several times trying to clear them fog in my mind but it just made me nauseous.

“How did I get here” that question was immediately followed by memories that felt so real and I could feel the sickening sound of a knife going through my heart and Samuel’s face as he leaned in close his face devoid of any love that I used to see in his eyes and beside him my sister is cold eyes and her laughed her as they stood over me watching the life drain out of my eyes like I was nothing to them.

I immediately put my hand over my heart to feel the wound but there was nothing no blood no wound chest some silky hospital pyjamas and my heart was beating steady.

“She’s awake doctor doctor” somebody called the doctor “she’s awake” a woman called out and footsteps rushed in and there were a lot of doctors and nurses and everybody was just fussing all over me with people checking on the machines around me and my Ivy drips and I was being probbed.

“can you hear me” another doctor asked looking at me like he couldn’t believe it “take it easy you’ve been through hell” I reached out and my throat was really dry also my voice sounded very different and it felt like it wasn’t even mine.

“Wh—ere, where am l”

“You’re at Saint Louis medical Centre” the doctor explained handing me a glass of water I know you must feel disoriented you suffered severe head trauma and internal injured with from the car crash he said and I gulp the water and looked at him confused.

“car crash” I whispered. “yes” he said “frankly it’s a miracle you survived and to be honest we didn’t think you would ever wake up it’s been three years since the accident he said and my hands trembled splashing the water all over me

“3 years” I repeated my voice cracking.

What the fuck. Please don’t tell me that Ivy and Simon have been getting away with me for three years.

So I’ve been in a comma for three years. How is that possible.

After they tried to kill me the most logical thing would be them trying again but they actually let me live?

“Yes but as I said it’s a miracle that you’re alive and we’ve already contacted your family Miss Charlotte.”

“ Who” I asked because I felt like doing hear him correctly.

“Miss Charlotte” all of these must be side effects of being in a coma for three years because I could swear I heard him call him another name and I was just too exhausted to ask again.

“Charlotte Chadwick” one of the nurses said and the name isn’t that much of a surprise because everybody knows Charlotte Chadwick her parents are one of richest high ranking officials in our pack but she left when she was just 12 and I don’t remember much of her except the fact that she was the most beautiful girl in our pack but she had to attend another academy away from our pack so I’m guessing they made a mistake in names.

I let them do what they were doing until they left me alone because I just felt really bad and I had a bad headache and it just everything felt heavy around me.

I can’t wait to see the look on Ivy and someone’s face when they see me and I wonder what they told everybody happened to me when was found, I didn’t think I would survive that wound and it’s just seemed impossible at that time and I could swear I felt myself die.

but after the hospital staff left I saw a bit of my reflection in the mirror that was on the other side of me and I thought maybe my eyes were deceiving me so I pushed myself up and my body felt taller lighter and completely different but I guess it’s the effect of the medicine so I made my way to the mirror only to get the biggest shock of my life.

Staring back at me wasn’t plain ugly doll Isla myself instead it was a drop dead gorgeous woman with beautiful red hair and the most striking and piercing havel eyes.

She looked like something out of a human supermodel magazine, something I’ve never seen before and she was staring at me and I was staring at her.

I left at my shaking hand to charge my cheek and the reflection moved the same way and l screamed in terror.