CHAPTER 22
BLAIR ASHFORD
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I'm not sure what woke me first; the beeping of a machine or the fact my mouth feels like the Sahara desert. My entire body feels limp and for a moment I forget where I am entirely. As I pry open my eyes and adjust them to the light, blinking furiously to focus on my surroundings.
A small groan slips from my lips as I attempt to twist my body but when I glance down I find wires hanging out the back of my hand and something on my finger. My heart races in my chest when I realise that I'm in the hospital and that annoying beeping is a machine telling me that I'm alive.
How?
Memories of my last moments with Jace come flooding back. All that blood. The way he buried that knife deep into my stomach, the way I slit his throat and felt every bit of relief when he
