Free Transcending Nirvana (Dark Evoke #3) by V. L. Brock Page A

to complete.” He offered a tightlipped smile then set the puzzle on the surface.
    Within minutes the puzzle was completed and Leviton smiled with an approving nod before placing it back into the drawer. However, the almost perplexed look he was sporting when he muttered my name caused my stomach to lurch, and beads of sweat were gradually increasing down the crevice of my spine. “I had asked Liam when you were here but maybe you could shed some light now that you can remember…” Here we go… “When you were rushed in, there were traces of tranquilizer in your blood work. Now, I’ve been looking through your medical notes, and I see that you have had them before…”
    I nodded.
    “You know that you really shouldn’t drink, drive or operate heavy machinery while taking them…”
    “What are you trying to say, Doctor Leviton?” my voice was small and weak. I had no idea what he was implying, and that feeling alone made me feel, once again, inferior. When he flashed a rather pleading gaze towards Liam, it become crystal clear…
    “It’ll be okay, Kady baby. I know it’s hard, but please, tell us what happened? We’re here to help you.” Unjust fingers bore into the flesh of my thigh causing a gasp to pass my lips. In a feeble attempt to get the pain to stop radiating up my leg, I closed my eyes and concentrated on my breathing.
    If I believe my lies, others will believe them, too.
    “I was feeling a little anxious about work so I took one before bed…”
    Even as the words left me, my mind was replaying the disturbing images of that night. Being trapped between Liam’s legs, his hand grasping forcefully at my jaw, coaxing my mouth open. His violent hand balling tightly and crashing against my ribs. The air being knocked from my body. The taste of salt and blood upon his fingers as he rammed them down my throat and dropped the pill on the back of my tongue…
    “I remembered that we had run out of milk, and I can’t function without my morning coffee. I didn’t want to disturb Liam in the shower…”
    Cascading water echoing. The pop of the shower gel overshadowed by his cheery voice singing: “Well, I guess you’d say what can make me feel this way? My Girl…”
    Swallowing harshly, my blood turned to ice, a shudder paved its way up my spine and down again. “It was less than twenty minutes after I’d taken it, so I thought I would have been fine just popping to the store, but…”
    “But it wasn’t. What it resulted in could have been much, much worse.”
    “I know. It will never happen again.”
    “One more thing which alarmed me: you”––the notes before him suffered his rapt attention as he flipped over yet more pages and spoke to the table––“have been under Dr. Oleman at Pinewood for just over a year.” He sighed as his inspection left the accumulation of medical bullshit and lies in front of him and crossed his arms over the desk anew. “I see that he had discontinued your stabilizers after a few months, and the tranquilizers were eventually the only ones that he would prescribe. Even so…he only covered you with two weeks maximum upon discharge at each time, and refills of further prescriptions hadn’t been noted.” His attention flittered from me to Liam and back again. “Theoretically, Miss Jenson, you shouldn’t have had any valium left to have taken that night.”
    “So what are you saying, Dr.?” Liam interjected, is voice booming.
    “What I’m saying is that there is no record of anyone prescribing further tranquilizers to Kady. Common sense dictates that she shouldn’t have had those pills, Mr. DeLaney.”
    I was sitting there, I know I was, but everything felt like a dream. You shouldn’t have had those pills, were the only words being reiterated in my mind. You shouldn’t have had those pills; you shouldn’t have had those pills. My ribs ached with the assault my heart was issuing on them. Enraged, my hands shaking with adrenaline, I turned to Liam,