Satan's Scat: The Asylum

Squatting on the floor in a far corner of her dimmed, ten-by-ten foot room, her thin legs pedestals on which she balanced, Jane Doe Number Eight moved not a hair as Patrick and Jeff opened the heavy, steel door and came inside. There was a wild, sickly look about her. The bones of her jaw from ears to chin were so distinct beneath her skin they were skeletal. Her bright red hair was short and barbed-like. Her eyes, yellowed by jaundice, glared at them over unnaturally bulbous, red cheeks.
“What’s wrong with her?” Patrick asked, quite startled. The powerful, beautiful mother of all gods would never look like this. Or would she?
“Chronic hemolytic anemia caused by an inherent abnormality of her red blood cells and/or her environment,” Jeff told him. “She’s expressing severe anemia and jaundice because it’s in an acute stage. They discovered she had it when they found blood in her urine at the hospital.”
Trying to see what or whom was inside her, Patrick studied her. She seemed frightened and very alone in this place. Her cot was without sheets. The only half normal thing around her was a single unit, stainless steel toilet and sink against the back wall.
“Let me talk to her alone,” he asked Jeff. She seemed, after all, not so much different than he was when he was committed to an asylum. “Maybe I can calm her down.”
“Sure. Just let me know when your finished.”
As Jeff went into the hall and Patrick closed the steel door behind him, Patrick did not see or hear the stealth behind him, the animal-like quickness with which she sprung from the corner. Leaping through the air, she drove his head into the door.
He was dazed, trapped between floor and door so Jeff could not open it. Straddling his shoulders, her fists flailed against his temple, while in growling low pitch, she screamed obscenities.
Grabbing his hair, she smashed his face again and again into the floor then suddenly pulled his head back. Attaching her teeth to his ear, she ripped.

Excerpt from Satan's Scat, The Destiny's Damned Trilogy - Book 2

© Shawna Ryan
Author: thrillers DESTINY'S DAMNED & SATAN'S SCAT
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