Chapter 69

• The nurses bustled out of the room, leaving me with this hot specimen of a man. I lay there, useless and immobile, but despite the agonizing bruises and scrapes ravaging my body, I felt a tingling sensation between my legs, more active than an electric circuit.
• When the doctor leaned closer, I forgot to breathe. My heart skipped a beat. The delusional part of my brain that believed in fairy tales and happy endings thought he was about to kiss me.
• But instead, he shone a silver flashlight in my eyes, and I winced at the bright light. "Sorry, just checking your pupils."