Chapter 2
Madelyne
The sky is so enormous, now that I am free. I have been indoors for so long that I feel dizzy as I stare up at the slowly disintegrating clouds, as if I will be overwhelmed if I don’t look away. And it’s not just the sky; the whole world outside the asylum is vast.
I managed to avoid swallowing some of my meds before bed check, spitting them out and flushing them instead. It’s been a good two hours since then—just enough time to slip out and steal clothes from the nurses’ lockers and to hike this far down the road. Problem is, the pills still partially dissolved in my mouth before I could get rid of them, so I’m lightheaded as I turn to the man on the motorcycle.
I didn’t expect anyone to be out driving this late in the middle of nowhere. The fact that he came from
