Chapter 41
Cassie
The client was close, far too close, his heavy body collapsed on top of hers as he passed out after his second dose. The panic button was so far away.
“I need assistance please.” Cassie squeaked under the weight of the unconscious kyrot male. No one came. The door didn’t open.
“I need assistance please.” Her small hand reached for the panic button.
She’d never get to it. Too far away. Cassie struggled to breathe.
It felt like her whole world was fading into shades of gray and red.
She wasn’t sure how long she stayed there; she wasn’t sure how long they left her there.
Eventually, someone scraped her off the floor.
While ?rim was initiating the lockdown protocol on their home, Cassie stood inside in the dark.
She didn’t know. She didn’t know what to do.
Lights wouldn’t have mattered. Her whole field of vision was filled with gray and red and Rhea’s face.
The Aviarist would find her. She’d go back into her cage.
She’d go back. She’d probably die. She needed something.
Anything to still the swirling, hungry fog inside of her head.
Her fingers found something sharp on ?rim’s workbench where he’d been tinkering that morning.
The pain was grounding. There was so much blood.