Forbidden place
Chapter 1
The alarm screamed.
Not the gentle chime of a morning wake-up call or the soft buzz of a reminder, but a full-blown, high-pitched, wailing assault on my eardrums. I groaned, rolling over and slapping blindly at my nightstand until my fingers found my phone.
6:47 PM.
Shit.
I bolted upright, the last threads of sleep vanishing in an instant. My group was supposed to meet at 7:30, and knowing them, they’d start blowing up my phone with unnecessary “where are you?” texts the second the clock hit 7:31.
I threw the covers off and swung my legs out of bed, blinking against the light filtering in through my window. Outside, the sky was already settling into a deep shade of indigo, the last traces of sunset bleeding into the horizon. I stretched my arms over my hea
