Tangled

Chapter 36

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I was an animal. And so was he.

I can feel Selene in the back of my mind, and I know that she’s asleep. I don’t bother her; I have a more pressing concern.

There’s no call light within reach, and I wiggle and struggle against my restraints. I desperately,

desperately need to pee.

I can hear a little electronic click, then a disinterested, staticky voice fills the room. “Do you need anything?”

I clear my throat, licking my dry lips. “I need to go to the bathroom.” My voice is hoarse, my throat sore. I wonder if I’ve been screaming. I have a feeling I have

been.

“Your nurse will be in in just a moment,” Static Voice says, and clicks off again.

I realize then that they’re probably watching me on camera, and my skin prickles in unease. Somehow, this feels worse than dealing with a horny kidnapper rubbing himself on me.

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I try not to think about it. It’s something I’m used to doing; it’s how I’ve made it through life this far.

But I really, really need to pee, damn it.

A nurse I don’t recognize comes in, and it takes a solid thirty seconds for her to lock the door behind her. It’s embarrassing to see how many security measures are in place to keep me unmated.

“How are you feeling? You seem to be pretty rational,” she says, chipper as the morning sun.

I hate her. I feel like shit. My head hurts. My body hurts. I have horrible memories of me throwing myself at a man I barely know in front of who knows how many strangers, and here’s this pretty nurse with her life together, asking me how I’m doing.

to go to the bathroom, or

them. We don’t want a repeat of last night.” She speaks in a matter of fact kind of way, but I can’t help

not,” I agree with

noman to mu aide and

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know I’m about to have freedom, my urgency has become an emergency. “Please hurry.”

the bathroom in panic. For a brief moment, I’m able to push aside the confusion and embarrassment. But

I remember it

Ugh.

wish I

cancel heat and

hands. Drying them with a thin hospital town, I stare at

away from the mirror, patting my hot cheeks. So

gone when

off my bed makes my stomach roil with nausea, so I sit on the visitor’s couch

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nurse comes in, followed by a female doctor,

the steel door.

the room, a warm smile on her face. “Good morning, Ava. I’m

Knowing she probably heard about last night makes

I gesture vaguely

her

heat cycle, Ava. Much stronger than what we

on true omegas and their heat cycles. They’re incredibly

as one.”

with unease. “So, what

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heat. We thought we would have more time before the peak hit.” She looks at me directly, her

shoulder, trying to be nonchalant. “It’s okay. I mean, it’s not,

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