Two hours later.
Valarie slowly opened her eyes. Though her head was not throbbing like before, it felt heavy. It took a great deal of effort to even move. She noticed that she was in an unfamiliar place and the walls were painted white. For a moment, she feared to have been kidnapped by someone. But when she noticed Ryder's anxious face before her, she relaxed a little.
Valarie then realized that she was at a hospital. She tried to remember how she ended up here and all that happened in her office flashed through her eyes. She remembered how she had fainted and it did not take her long to deduce Ryder and Preston to have brought her here.