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It was Curtis. It was hard to form thoughts but after a few moments I realized he was talking about me. I wasn’t waking up and they didn’t think I would.
“No,” Blake said, and I could feel a slight pressure on my hand. He was touching me because our connection gave me peace.
“You love her,” Curtis said. “Love her enough to let her go.”
No! No!I didn’t want him to let me go. I wanted to come back.
“Keeping her alive like this isn’t for her, it’s for you,” Curtis said with a voice filled with sadness. “Let her find the peace she deserves.”
I didn’t want peace. I was willing myself to open my eyes but there was no light to break the dark. Unable to hold on, I drifted away and there was nothing.
The next time I came around I heard Kyle ask, “What’s going on?”
“Curtis is talking about turning off the machines,” Blake revealed.
No!I began to panic. They couldn’t switch off the machines. I was still alive even though I was confined to the prison in my body.
There was a moment of silence.
“Over my dead body,” Kyle swore.
I felt relief. The disorientation took over and I couldn’t hold on anymore.
Slowly the sound of the machines that were keeping me alive pierced through to me and I awakened.
“Get me a knife,” Blake instructed someone. What did he need a knife for?
I felt a dull pain and I wanted to pull my hand away. I didn’t understand why Blake was cutting me.
“What are you doing?” Curtis asked.
“I’m joining your pack,” Blake answered. It had already been the plan and I felt a swell of pride for a moment that he was joining my pack. I just had to wake up and we would have everything we wanted. My pack was safe and we had each other.
“Look, I’m sorry about before,” Curtis said as my head started to become fuzzy and it was hard to concentrate on what was going on around me.
“The part of me that is her friend doesn’t want to lose her and I can’t imagine my life without her, but the doctor in me knows that things aren’t looking good at all. As a friend, I keep hoping she will wake up, but as a doctor I know the chances are she won’t.”
I will wake up, I screamed inside my mind, trying to break free so I could shout it out loud.
Please don’t give up on me, I begged, trying to will the thought through to Blake through our mind-link.
“What’s going on?” I heard a female voice ask.
“Curtis wants to switch off the machines,” Blake explained, his voice laced with anger.
I heard a scuffle.
“Calm down, Scar,” Cade’s voice pierced through to me.
Scarlett was here. I felt mixed emotions. She’d been my friend even though I’d been deceitful.
“If you touch those machines, I will kill you,” she threatened in a deadly tone.
I felt my heart swell at her words. It wasn’t just Blake who was trying to hold on to me, they all were. All through my life there had been a shortage of people to care about me but things were very different now.
The darkness closed around me again and the voices were lost in the echo of my mind.
When I awoke again, I could hear voices again.
