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Her eyes widened as panic flared in her chest.
She scrambled off him, pulling him up into a sitting position as she tried to rouse him. Yet all her efforts were in vain.
She tried to spray him with water, shake him, even slap him.
Nothing worked.
He was still breathing, but his pulse was barely palpable.
With no care for herself or the consequences of her actions, she dashed out of the room, going to her office where she had an emergency kit for overdoses. She didn’t know if that was what was happening, but based on how he was behaving, she thought it very likely.
There were two types of emergency injections that they used to counteract the effect of the drugs, one for the stimulant, one for the sedative.
Noelle brought both with her.
“Raf, please…” She cried out, her throat raw. “Don’t you dare die on me. Not now. Not ever!”
She quickly searched for a vein, but as she reached for the shot, she hesitated.
He hadn’t behaved normally, had he? Certainly not how she’d learned he acted while on the stimulant. If she made a mistake and she administered another sedative while he was already sedated… She would kill him.
One wrong option and she could very well kill him with her own hands.
Saying a small prayer, she chose the other injection. He’d never behaved like that before while under the stimulant, so she was confident it couldn’t be that.
Good God, had they switched his drug?
They’d done tests before on that, and almost all the subjects had died because the body had been unable to withstand the cocktail of drugs.
“Please Raf,” she croaked as she brought the syringe to his vein, piercing his skin and injecting the cure into his body.
She waited five long minutes with her heart in her throat, tears running down her cheeks.
At last, he drew in a sharp breath, his fingers twitching as a soft groan escaped his lips.
“Raf,” she slumped against the floor, feeling as though she’d aged a thousand years in just a few moments.
He didn’t answer. He still wasn’t conscious. But his pulse had recovered, and he reacted to pain stimuli.
Noelle was reluctant to leave his side, but she knew he needed more help than she could give him. Even as everything rebelled inside her body, she got up, put her clothes back on and erased every trace of her in the room.
She laid a kiss on his brow, holding him close as she told him how much she loved him—that they would soon be together, far, far away from this place. She feasted her eyes on him once more before she went out the door, locking it behind her.
The moment she was outside the building, she rang one of the alarms, knowing the doctors on duty would check on all the subjects.
She was aware of the danger of being spotted and the fact that by dallying next to the facility she was practically inviting them to catch her there. Yet she couldn’t leave until she made sure that a doctor came in to see Raf.
Minutes passed. The alarm continued ringing. Noelle watched anxiously on her tablet as the door to Raf’s room opened, one of the doctors coming inside. Noting he couldn’t wake him up, he started to perform a routine check up before bringing in a mobile IV bag and hooking it to his body.
More minutes passed. Finally, Raf could move more than just a few fingers, his eyes opening as he wet his lips.
“N…” he tried to speak, but it proved too much for him. He blinked a few times before he went back to sleep.
Noelle still didn’t leave.
She was huddled in a corner in the back of the building, the tablet clutched in her hands as she waited for the doctor’s pronouncement.
“He’s fine,” the doctor finally told one of the guards. “Just a small scare, nothing else.”
