Chapter Sixty Five – Recovery
Kyla opens her eyes blinking back the haze from the anaesthetic, she could hear monitors beeping around her, and her throat was dry and scratchy, as she brings the room into focus a nurse stands beside her, fiddling with some buttons on the machine sat at the side of the bed
“Hey there Kyla, how are we feeling?” she asked
“Groggy, and thirsty” Kyla’s voice raspy to her own ears
The nurse hands her a glass of water with a straw and encourages Kyla to sip from it
“Better” she smiles kindly
Kyla nods, then lays her head back on the pillow, suddenly the events of the last few days pull into sharp focus, the memories of Sanchez, how she had blagged him into fighting with her, how he had kicked her so hard in her stomach she was bleeding, how Kermit had
