Chapter Six
A light tapping on the door woke Kayla the next morning. She cursed the person and their mother in the most colorful language she could manage before burying her head back under the blankets. A swirl of cold air hit her as Carl’s weight shifted off the bed. She grumbled and scooted over to suck up the warmth from his abandoned spot.
Muffled voices reached her through the blanketed cocoon, and she squeezed her eyes shut, trying to burrow into the bed even deeper. It was too early to wake up. Everyone needed to go away. Between the metabolic booster that was messing with her system and the entire ordeal from earlier, sleep hadn’t come easily. She’d spent the majority of the night trying to hack into OmniLab’s sealed records. Sure, it would have been easier to pester Alec for th
