Jessica opened her eyes to find Mike and all her friends staring at her. She scanned the room and instantly recognised it. It was the Spencer suite at Hope hospital she spend a month in after Pearl had her bone marrow transplant. She closed her eyes again, the snippets of her horrific past two days rushing in all at once. It made a lot of sense why her body felt so heavy and the generalised pain as if a truck ran over her. What did not make sense was how Mike got involved in finding her in the first place. It did not make sense why he refused to kill her even when she begged him, he would have been hailed a hero because his actions would have saved the country. It would have suited him and his uncle if she died in that basement. “Then why was he there staring back at her like he cares?” sh
