The marble wall closed in on Olivia and the coldness seeped out of it, wrapping her entire body with a blanket of fear.
For a brief second, Olivia stood frozen, paralyzed with crippling anxiety. She felt her stomach somersault, shaking the contents inside which threatened to climb out of her throat. On top of the unsettling fear, she could feel her heart ring in her ears as it pounded in her chest.
But she had no choice, had she?
All she could do was to face the monster in the room and kill it before it kills her.
Olivia inhaled through her nose, her eyes closed as she filled her lungs with enough air to drown her distress away.
She swallowed down a lump in her throat and pressed the panic button pinned on her blouse, praying that it was working, so she could get back-up as fast as she could.
