CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
FABIANA CAME SLOWLY awake. Her head was pounding and her eyes felt heavy and gritty. Her heart pounded hard in her chest, as if aware of some danger to her well-being that her mind hadn’t yet grasped.
Something horrible danced at the edge of her consciousness. Something she didn’t want to face.
She fought the urge to dive back into unconsciousness and dug into her resolve, as she’d done all her life, through every disappointment, every terrible moment visited upon her by fate.
She forced her eyes to open.
The sun shone brightly, piercing her vision with pain, and her eyes slammed shut again. The drum pounding against her brain picked up its tempo, sliding from lazy blues into a hard rock rhythm that made her teeth ache. Reaching up, she massaged her temples with the t
