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The digital recording drones with silence for a good thirty seconds.
“Are we finished with this session before we start?” Holden asks.
“What do you want me to say?”
“It would be helpful if you said you were prepared to begin.”
“Get it over with,” Sadie grumbles.
The doctor releases a heavy sigh before beginning the steps that would relax Sadie and allow her to go back to the time when she was a prisoner of the Osorio cartel.
“It’s late October, more than a year since you first arrived at the compound. More than eight months since anyone on your team has heard from you.”
“I clutched at my belly.”
Sadie’s voice is low and small.
“Why did you clutch at your belly?” Holden asks.
“The baby was gone. He was born already. But he was dead.”
“The child was stillborn?”
“Yes. That’s what they told me. And I saw him ... touched him. He was dead.”
“Where are you, Sadie?”
“I don’t know. There were no windows. I had no grasp of time. Night or day. The passing of seasons. The temperature was always the same. The lights were always on.”
“Were you alone?”
“Yes.”
“Were your medical needs attended to?”
“I’m not sure. I believe so.”
“And you’re certain you were alone.”
“At first, but then he came into the room.”
“He?”
There is a delay in her answer.
“Eddie.”
“I thought he was dead.”
“He would be in a few more minutes.”
“You intended to kill him?”
“Yes. I hid an ink pen in my waistband.”
“Tell me what happened.”
“I waited until he was close enough. He hugged me. No matter that I was a traitor; he still felt something for me. I took advantage of the moment and jammed the pen into his jugular. The blood spewed and flowed like a river. I remember his eyes and the way he looked at me as he died in my arms.”
