The Reckoning

Katya

My head was banging,

My lungs ached, and confusing images wouldn't stop replaying in my head.

In that fire, while I had been looking for Ferrara, tears running down my cheeks as I held our son, I could have sworn that I had seen Alistair Jung,

Just as I would have bet on my life, that he had saved me from that fire,

Saved us.

Sounds of beeping machines surrounded me, my patched throat empty as I struggled to say something, anything.

"Doctor, she's opening her eyes."

At the sound of that, I parted my eyes sharply, a sudden pain slamming into my head as I took in the lights and the hospital bed.

Hospital?

What of my son, and...Ferrara?

But before I could speak, a doctor walked into the room with a kind smile in his eyes.

"Ms. Petrov, wow, we didn't expect you to wake up this fast after all the smoke you injected into your body."

The smoke, the fire...

"Where...where are they?" I forced myself to speak, although it hurt to do that much, and I watched with hope and fear as the doct