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“Perry showed me,” I murmured quietly. “I see you won your foot race.”
Slone grinned wickedly. “If I want it bad enough, I can win anything.”
With that cryptic comment, he turned around and left, closing the door softly behind him.
My heart was racing when the latch clicked into place.
I licked my dry lips as a thought occurred to me.
Why did that sound like a promise? Like it was geared toward me?
CHAPTER 6
I’m just WTF-ing my way through life.
-Caristonia to Slone
ARI
“Do you think that she’s having one of those episodes?”
A whisper of a movement and then, “What episodes?”
Annabelle and Briley.
“Never mind,” Briley murmured. “Should we try to wake her up? Daddy said to knock and tell her that breakfast was ready through the door, but I got all worried about her after what she said last night.”
That was sweet.
And, sadly, I was having one of those episodes.
Though, this one wasn’t that bad.
At least, not for them to witness.
I was awake, but my body was still fully paralyzed.
Though it was normal, and something I experienced almost every single time I was woken from sleep by something that wasn’t natural, I still abhorred it with every fiber of my being.
There was nothing quite like wanting to move and not being able to.
Slowly, that feeling of helplessness started drifting away, allowing me the ability to blink open my eyes and turn my head.
What I saw were two curious little girls staring at me from only a foot away.
“You’re alive,” Annabelle said quietly.
I’d heard her talk all of two times. Once to say goodnight to her father, and once at the water park the day before.
Both of those times were barely above a whisper.
Apparently, that was a trend coming from her.
“I’m alive,” I murmured quietly. “What kind of breakfast are they having?”
Annabelle wrinkled her nose as Briley blurted, “Daddy and Uncle Titus like to eat healthy. And since Aunt Perry is trying to lose weight, and Uncle Banner is a go with the flow kind of guy, we’re having bacon and turkey sausage. Can you believe that?”
No.
