Chapter 21

    Josh's pov "Please open your eyes." A feminine voice panicked as she cried out to me, and I felt a hand slapping against my cheeks. I could feel my head on a soft surface that smelled like a garden of flowers, the smell intoxicating my head and filling my senses, but as I tried to open my eyes, I let out a cough instead as I grabbed my neck. I couldn't stop coughing as it felt like my throat was being strangled. The moment my eyes opened wide, I regained my full consciousness while my hands were still holding my neck tight. "Thank heavens," the voice cried, as I felt a soft hand caressing my forehead. The voice didn't sound familiar, and the person bawling her eyes out in front of me was someone that I had never seen before, but by the way she dressed, I could tell that she was a maid. "You're alive," she cried, covering her mouth with the palm of her hands while tears streamed down her smooth brown cheeks. I had no idea what was going on and how she managed to get into my room bec