Chapter 215 - Talia

I snarled as I broke open another ice pack. At this rate, I'd use the whole bag of them before tonight. Whatever time that stupid dinner was at. The loss of time was starting to get on my nerves. Hell, it was starting to drive me batty.

No windows, I couldn't even give an estimate of what time it was. No sense of passing days or nights. Just the low lights of the cell and variable interruptions to trip my fight-or-flight system. I felt like I'd been here for both a couple days and a couple years.

I made it back to the bed. The bottle of water Arkady's man had given to me wasn't even a quarter down yet. I glared at it.

Between the aches and pains of my body, the possibly damaged kidney, and the lack of a sense of time, I was beginning to feel like I was losing my mind. Not a good thing when I needed to be sharp enough to try to escape at a moment's notice.

I laid back down on the bed, slid the newest ice pack between the mattress and the sweatshirt I was still wearing. Sighe