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I’m pretty sure if I keep jiggling this a little more, I can get this stupid monitor off my ankle.
Owen has been gone all night long, and I don’t know when he’s coming back. At this point, I’ve gone past worried… I’m just angry.
How dare he leave me all alone like this?
How dare he keep me here at all?
“Ah, shit!”
It’s loosened, just a little. Just one of the screws, but it’s a start. My heart dances with excitement as a new surge of positivity ricochets through me.
I can do this.
Iwilldo this.
I shake my leg hard before starting on the next screws. If I can just release myself from this, then I might not get shocked when trying to leave the house. If I can get through that stupid front door, then I’m gone.
I don’t know where we are.
I don’t know where this God damn cabin is.
But I don’t care.
I’ll just run until I can’t run any longer.
I squeeze my leg, slowly edging it through the monitor. It scrapes and hurts like hell. I even cut my ankle a little but the blood kinda works for me. It helps me to slip the stupid thing off.
“Ah!” I cry out in joy as the device clatters to the floor. “I’m free!”
I almost can’t believe it.
As I leap to my feet, it’s like a giant weight has been lifted from me. I feel amazing, like I could sprint a damn marathon.
I’m sure all hell not thinking about Owen as I race through the cabin's front door, half expecting the worst.
“Oh my God!”
But no zap comes.
Nothing knocks me back on my ass.
I really amfree!
It’s such a shock that I don’t know what to do for a moment. I dart my eyes left and right, trying to adjust to the weird dawn light, trying to figure out which way to go.
It doesn’t matter,I remind myself rapidly.Just run.
I take off through the trees, my heart thundering so hard against my rib cage that I fear it might burst free, but even that doesn’t matter. I justgo.
I’m on a mission to find human life,anyonewho can save me, and that’s all that matters.
“Fuck!”
My blurry eyes and screwed sense of direction means I’m not as focused on the floor as I should be.
At least not until my toes get caught under a tree root which is protruding from the floor and sends me flying forwards.
I smack my hands hard on the ground, scraping my palms on the stones, hitting my chin as well.
