Asylum Series by Lauren Hammond
Asylum #1
Insanity
Lauren Hammond
Sometimes love...can drive you
crazy.Adelaide Carmichael and Damien Allen couldn't be more
opposite.Adelaide's mother abandoned her when she was ten years old,
leaving her to be raised by her abusive and alcoholic father.Damien on
the other hand came from a wealthy family, was a local celebrity, and seemed to
have a bright future ahead of him.Despite their differences, Adelaide
and Damien were young, wild, and fiercely in love.And they had a
plan.They were going to run away.Be together forever.And
their plan was set in motion, until tragedy struck and for some reason, Adelaide
wound up in The Oakhill Institution for the insane.Adelaide has no idea
what she did to wind up at Oakhill, but she knows one thing for
sure...She wants out.And after Damien follows her there to aid
her in escaping, Adelaide slowly begins putting together the pieces of her
memory that are missing.And it doesn't take Adelaide long to figure out
that sometimes...That one true love never
dies.Excerpt~Shoving my feet off the side of the bed, new
surroundings burn my eyes. Tan plaster walls instead of thick white padded ones.
One oblong barred window. Two dressers. Two closets. Two beds.They've
moved me to a different room.A gentle squeaking noise bounces off the
walls and my eyes avert to my right. Oh crap. They put me in a room with a nut
job. They say I'm a nut job. But not like this. Not even
close.She rocks back and forth on her cot, knees to her chest, twisting
a piece of her wiry, red hair between her fingertips. Her freckled arms are
trembling. She sings with vibrato.I am slowly going crazy. One. Two.
Three. Four. Five. Six.Switch.Crazy going slowly am I. One. Two.
Three. Four. Five. Six.Switch.I think about screaming again. I
think about plugging my ears. Somebody turn her off. She lifts her head
slowly, a maddening look in her big, brown eyes, an eerie smile crawling across
her pale, freckled lips. “Shh,” she whispers. “They're coming for
us.”“Who's they?”She shakes her head and lets out a cackle laced
with the deepest kind of crazy. I think they put her in here with me purposely.
They're trying to break me. They think if they put me around truly insane people
that I'll accept my place here. Well...They are wrong ...
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