Chapter Ten
She slept for twelve hours her dreams haunted with the old visions and new ones she drove from her mind as soon as she awakened. To her astonishment when she opened her eyes Carmella was at her bedside. She thought for a moment that she was at home in the states and all that had happened, Willy and Sam, her uncle, Namba, Ruiz, and the General had been a dream.
Carmella sensed what she was thinking, “No, Heather, not a dream. I’m here. They brought me here on the same night you were sent to the compound of the drug dealers.”
“But why...” Heather began.
“To continue to care for you.”
“You mean to continue with the hypnosis, the power you have over me.”
Carmella looked away for a moment then turned back, “That’s true, Heather, but had I not agreed to their demands they were
