CHAPTER 21
“Come on, Jade. I know you’re in there somewhere. Wake up.” The sweet, melodic voice pulled Jade out of her pain-free slumber. The flickering lamp in the corner seemed as bright as Alaska’s midnight sun on the summer solstice. Her head throbbed, and her eyes hurt.
She felt dizzy and almost threw up when she turned toward the figure beside her.
“Good.”
Jade could hear the smile in the woman’s voice even through the ski mask she wore.
“Do you know who I am?”
Did she? Did she know anything? Jade tried to remember where she was or what she was doing lying on the wooden floor in a strange room.
The woman raised her long, elegant fingers and removed the mask. “Now do you recognize me?”
Jade knew that her body was supposed to respond, that she was supposed to feel afraid.
“I h
