Page 50 of Severance

Nik glances back at Alek who gives him a blank stare and stands as still as a statue.

“Look,” Nik starts as he crouches down beside the bed. “It’s not my place to spill her secrets.”

“The fuck—” I interject, but he cuts me off.

“If she wants you to know, she’ll tell you when she’s back.”

The gauze across my chest becomes more saturated with blood as I breathe heavily and my heart pounds against my ribcage.

All I see is red.

Blood red.

His blood.

He can’t be trusted. Someone with eyes like his never have good intentions.

Everything he says is a lie.

They have Dahlia here somewhere.

The adrenaline kicks in and my free hand is clenched in a fist as I drive it into the side of his head. Nik’s body jerks to the side, but he’s still caught in the grip of my other hand.

He glances up at me, slightly disoriented. “What the fuck?”

Holding onto him, I hit him again, using enough force to knock him down onto the ground. In a matter of seconds, he’s pulled away from the bed and Alek is towering over me as I try to climb out of bed.

“Fuck you,” I growl as I try to get up. Alek roughly pushes me back onto the bed and puts his weight on me as he holds me down.

“Nik,” he barks as he glares down at me as I fight against him. “Get the fuck up.”

I see blood.

Both of their blood.

“I’ll fucking kill you if you touched her,” I seethe as I struggle to break free from his grip.

Alek throws his leg over me as he straddles me on the bed. He squeezes my thighs together with his, pinning me down.

“Got it.” Nik smiles as he strides over like he was never hit. Holding up a needle, he flicks it, dissolving the air bubbles trapped in the liquid. “I need you to constrict his forearm as much as possible. His hand’s our best bet right now.”

Gripping my arm tighter, Alek huffs as he cuts off the blood flow and Nik grabs my hand.

“What the fuck is this?” I demand loudly.

Tapping on my hand, Nik finds a vein and positions the needle perfectly. He slides it into my skin and a warmth spreads through my body as he injects the substance into my bloodstream.

Pulling the needle out, Nik smiles down at me as my eyelids grow heavy. “You’re going to take a little nap and when you wake up, we’ll try this again.”

Sinking into the bed, I feel my muscles loosen and relax as my breathing slows. Everything around me slowly fades away as my vision becomes hazy.

“We could just kill him instead.” Alek’s detached voice comes from somewhere in the distance.

Nik laughs lightly as it barely reaches my ears. “You’ll get your hands bloody, brother, but not right now. I’m too fond of my dick and balls to lose them to his girl.”

My girl.

Her face floats in my mind as my eyes refuse to open again. I’m drifting and losing control of everything as I drift off into the darkness.

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