Chapter 3

My gaze landed on the large bed in the center of the room. A man was lying there. His breathing was deep and slow. He was obviously very drunk.

I didn't bother to figure out who he was. All I knew was that this was a temporary safe place. The effects of the drug were burning through me, and my sanity was hanging by a thread, like a candle flickering in the wind.

I stumbled to the edge of the bed and yanked the blanket around myself, but the heat inside me was too much to bear. Without thinking, I…