Chapter 14
My eyes fluttered open. Somewhere nearby, a heart monitor beeped rhythmically. My eyes focused for a moment, and I saw Kimberly’s mother Adelaide sitting in a chair near me. Apparently, I was in a hospital bed.
Adelaide jumped out of her seat when she made eye contact with me. “Nurse!” she shouted out the door, before rushing back to the bed. “Kimberly. Kim. Kim. Can you hear me? Can you hear me?”
Kim? Why was she calling me Kim? Why was she even here? Then I remembered what Lucifer said. He couldn’t send me back into my body because it was dead, decaying in a ditch somewhere. I was in Kimberly’s body. Because her soul was gone, I could inhabit it.
A portly nurse rushed into the room.
“Kimberly!” she said. “Can you hear me? Nod your head if you can hear me.”
I nodded slowl
