After they arrived at the hotel-

Stella swiped the keycard and pushed the door open. Briony's face twisted in discomfort; she clapped a hand over her mouth and rushed straight into the bathroom.

Retching echoed from inside.

"Bryn—” Stella called, hurrying after her.

Outside the bathroom, Stewart and Cedric Clarke waited in the hallway, listening

to Briony's painful vomiting. Both men wore grim expressions.

It was a while before the sounds finally subsided.

Stella emerged, supporting a pale and exhausted Briony as they left the bathroom together.

The room had two beds. Stella guided Briony to one and helped her lie down.

Briony was clearly feeling awful-she barely managed to close her eyes before slipping into a restless sleep.

Stella pressed her palm to Briony's forehead.

A slight fever.

She tucked the blanket around Briony, then got up and stepped outside the room. Looking straight at Cedric Clarke, she said, "Leave your first aid kit with me."

Cedric handed it over, concern etched on his face. "Is she all right?"

look at Stewart. "Thanks to someone, she was throwing up nonstop on the flight and now, just landed, she's running a fever. What do you

Cedric had no answer.

motion, Stella snatched the kit from Cedric's hands and shut the door

head. "Man, look at the mess

pressed into a thin line,

turned and strode

"Hey,

...

room, Stella took

99.9 degrees.

fever wasn't dangerously

rummaged through it, but found nothing

cloth in rubbing alcohol and gently wiped Briony's forehead and neck,

furrowed in distress.

friend, and she silently cursed Stewart all

body alternated between chills and feverish heat. She had a vague sense of someone tending to her, but her eyelids felt impossibly heavy; she just couldn't

dreams blurred and shifted. Somewhere in that fog, she heard a

"Bryn... Bryn..."

sound and found herself in a dark,

so long

another voice echoed from

don't go any further! Come back,

She stopped and turned.

into a sun-dappled

a bike along a path just like this. She'd been so afraid of falling,

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