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I would make the Carrington name synonymous not with time-filling garbage but quality entertainment. The new era would begin with a more thorough review of the files I’d downloaded. Then I could formulate a proper plan to move forward.
Fortune was finally in my favor.
“Ohmygosh, look out!” a frantic, high-pitch voice called.
I turned around, but saw no one.
A shiver carried up my spine.
I looked up.
Something shimmered in the air above me—an oblong shape crusted in sparkles? Before I could take action or make sense of what was happening, the object pummeled me in the face.
SEVEN
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Pulsing, ringing, throbbing—it was as if gongs sounded in every direction, so loud they reverberated through my brain. When I tried to focus my attention toward the cause, a crush of dizziness pounded down over me. Frantically, I searched for answers, but found none. I was engulfed in a void of darkness, lost and bound, unable to break free.
Something was very wrong. I needed to move. I needed to get out of this place. I needed to go,now.
My eyes shot open, my heart thundering in my chest, and a heavy jolt of pain pierced right in the center of my head. My vision was blurry, but all I could see was white, apparently trading one void for another.
“You’re awake.” The voice was soft and feminine.
I tried to turn my head to see who was there, but as I did, the pain in my head turned sharp. I grunted and reached up.
A gentle hand caught my wrist and moved my arm back down to my side.
“Don’t move,” the voice said. “I’m getting the doctor.”
I caught a blur of motion before stillness and silence filled the white space.
Doctor?
I tried to blink away the fog. My vision slowly gained focus. I was lying in an uncomfortable bed. I threw back the thin white blanket covering me and found my body clothed in only boxers and a hospital gown.
A kaleidoscope of confusion twisted my brain.
I was in a hospital, a patient for some reason.
Even as my vision focused, my memories remained a blur.
I touched my face. It felt strange and puffy. I could only see out of my left eye. The right was swollen shut.
What happened to me? How did I get here? Had my face always been like this?
I tried to think back to where I had been and what I’d been doing before I’d woken in this hospital bed. There was nothing—no memory, not even an inkling of what had led to my current state. My arms and legs seemed to work, and there was no sign of injury on my torso.
My swollen face must have been the reason for being here.
Perhaps I’d been stung by a bee and I was allergic.
Shouldn’t I know if I was allergic?
Two women entered the room wearing medical scrubs. One appeared to be in her early fifties, the other in her twenties. I looked between them, trying to decipher if either of their faces were familiar.
They weren’t.
