Unveiling Secrets

Chapter Thirty

Roman's POV

"Come out!" A guard shouts while opening our prison cell.

"But she was there in the evening. She needs to gain some strength before going back." Victor argues but the man snarls at him while raising his hand to possibly hit him.

"I'll go with you." Chandler gets off the dirty floor and stagger towards the cell door.

The guard follows and lock the door. My eyes follow Chandler as she walks unsteadily towards the door that led out of this place. I silently watch, remembering what she had asked me yesterday. But looking at her right now, I know it's time for me to step in and help. She will die if this goes on and seeing they are not giving her enough time to get herself together, after using her healing powers to the max.

I look around the cell and what I see breaks my heart. Kiera and Nicolette are huddled together and sobbing silently. Same for Jordan who is holding a sleeping Noah, who looks not so good. Only Victor looks strong among us because even I am not in a good health. If Nate was with us, maybe he could have been strong beside Victor but sadly, I don't even know which side of this place is he at.

That night at the gathering, when we were captured, they wanted to release us and take just Chandler with them. But I couldn't allow that to happen because the only way to make sure that I help her was to go with her. Nate understood my reason even if she was against it. He helped convincing the capturers to take us with them by putting in some threats here and there which somehow made them take us all. The only one who didn't come with us was Max and I later on discovered that Kiera had ordered him to stay hidden. With how much Max dotted on Noel, he must be worried about him.

"You should eat Roman." Victor urges and I look at the dirty bun we were given yesterday's night.

"I no-"

"For fucks sake! Eat the damn food already." He yells and I close my eyes and bring up my legs, hugging my knees and look at the dirty floor.

I'm not sure of how long we've been here. Sometimes we could tell it was daylight or night, by the open window. But sometimes it was closed and we couldn't tell when was when. It's been hell living here and every time I could feel myself losing my strength.

"Stop yelling at him!" Jordan shouts and Victor sighs.

"I'm sorry. It's just that I'm worried about everyone here and seeing how you are getting, I need you to eat Roman. You need the strength, even if it's just a little bit of it. This food might be dirty but its all we got so don't be like this and eat it."

I slowly reach over the bread and take a bite. I don't want to explain to him how I'm feeling at the moment because he might freak out. He is the strong pillar that is holding us all from falling and I don't want to weaken his strong resolve with my situation. The thing is, without me taking my medicine, I'm getting weaker and weaker with each passing second. I finish the bread but then I get hit with nausea and in a second, I vomit.

"Oh goddess!" Nicolette comes to my side and so does everyone.

I keep on vomiting and I'm not even sure what's coming out of me now because it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. My eyes open and close as I struggle to keep them open. Pain registers in my stomach and I cry out then I'm consumed by the darkness.

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"How is he?" I hear a voice ask and some movements to my right.

"He's been unconscious for some time. There was blood in his vomit but I'm not sure what's wrong with him." Victor replies.

"He takes medicine everyday. He hasn't taken any since we came here. It might be because of that." The voice that I now recognize as Chandler pauses and I feel a hand on my face. "I'll have to see what I can do." She adds and my eyes threw open and stare right in her eyes.