Page 67 of The Masks She Wore

?No, not the world, my room.

?I blinked again, trying to get the sleep out of my eyes. What happened? The last thing I remembered was talking to Malachi.

?My head rolled to the side, finding my phone just out of reach. It had been dinner. We had been talking about…

?My eyes widened and I shot up.

?It was a mistake.

?The world tilted around me, and my head dropped to my hands. “Fuck,” I moaned.

?When my head stopped spinning, I forced myself to look up, finding my room dark, the curtains drawn. I slowly pushed my legs over the side of the bed and looked around. Jack had given me a glass of water and then…

?My eyes lifted to the door. Had he drugged me?

?Was Idrugged?

?What thefuck!

?I reached for my phone, just on the far edge of my nightstand and unlocked it, finding a text from ‘unknown’ on my phone.

Unknown:Yes, I drugged you.

Left on assignment,

If you do anything stupid, you’ll get

what you earn.

?I frowned.

?I didn’t bother saving the number as I stood and tested out my legs. I felt groggy. I needed coffee and a good horror movie. Some time to recover before I faced everything they had said.

?I carefully made my way out to the living area when another message dinged.

Unknown: You should be awake by now.

If you don’t text me by the end of today

I’ll be forced to send someone up.

Don’t make me send someone up, Princess.

?I sneered and checked the time, only to freeze when I saw thedate.

?November 4th! I was out for two days!

?I pulled up the number, angry, my face heating up. He knocked me out for two full days? I know I didn’t have a job, but even so, two days was two days. That was a lot of time to sleep.

Rae:You knocked me out for two days?

You’re an absolute asshole!

Unknown:Good evening, Princess??

?I stared at that winky face, feeling unbelievable rage. That goddamn dick. How dare he drug me? How dare he leave me here, drugged and alone with Max having a key. Jack had said it himself that they couldn’t kill him yet. Which meant he was still alive, and I had been unconscious on the bed available for anyone to just…use.

?What if Max had come by? What if someone had broken in?

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